- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:17:17 +0900
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- CC: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, Public TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2014/06/30 23:50, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > Well it isn't organized around organizations. > It is organized around people. > > The rule I assume is to prevent a company though becoming a dominant force, or appearing to. > While we can discuss the relative merits of this rule, I'd point out that Alex you are at a company which others could certainly imagine ending up in a dominant position. It has have a lot of good people and often acquires other companies which have good people. This would be good discussion for the AB or the AC. My impression is that this rule (like some others) was created at a time when (sorry to name names) nobody wanted Microsoft to have 2, 3, or even more representatives (and the rest to be from Netscape). Such a fear (with different company names) may not currently be warranted. Whether it will be warranted in the future or not is difficult to tell; I very much hope not. There is also the argument that having people from different companies may create a bigger chance of bringing in different technical viewpoints. Each successful company has certain common ways of doing things, certain core technologies, and a broader mix may be a good thing. This is completely different from Also, the W3C has hundreds of members. Under an equal distribution assumption, the chance of two TAG members (out of 8, because Tim doesn't count) coming from the same organization should be fairly low. That conflicts such as the current one happen so frequently strongly indicates that the equal distribution assumption isn't justified. I didn't run the odds, but my guess is that the best statistical explanation for the actual observations would need a strongly skewed distribution. > I agree personally that you would be a big loss for the TAG. I fully agree too! Regards, Martin.
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