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

Yeah, this part is actually covered under "related members", but is an example of where someone can reasonably represent both their own organisation and its large client which is a W3C member…

07.11.2016, 18:29, "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>:
> On 07/11/2016 16:15, Revising W3C Process Community Group Issue Tracker
> wrote:
>>  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.
>
> </Daniel>

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