Re: w3process-ISSUE-175 (multiple hats?): Can a group member represent more than one organisation? [Process Document]

On 07/11/2016 16:15, Revising W3C Process Community Group Issue Tracker
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> w3process-ISSUE-175 (multiple hats?): Can a group member represent more than one organisation? [Process Document]
> 
> http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/175
> 
> Raised by: Charles McCathie Nevile
> On product: Process Document
> 
> Section 5.2.1 of the process includes the following requirement: 
> 
> [[[
> A participant MUST represent at most one organization in a Working Group or Interest Group.
> ]]]
> 
> In practice this is sometimes applied for voting and otherwise seems irrelevant - participants tend to represent whatever they know, and a number of them, claim not to represent even the organisation that sponsored them to join, just providing opinions on the issues.
> 
> Propose to remove the restriction as unnecessary.

And there are some WG Members that are employed by a Member itself
contracting for another Member in the same WG. Happens all the time,
is usually solved by sending a disclosure message to the Group.
I would recommend that way of doing.

Disclaimer: happened to me several times in the past in the CSS WG.

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Received on Monday, 7 November 2016 17:29:28 UTC