From Revising W3C Process Community Group
2.4.1 Technical Architecture Group Participation
"Appointees are not required to be on the W3C Team." This was surely
written long ago and doesn't really speak to actual practice. I do
not recall a Team appointee, and I also think the Director in
practice wants to populate the TAG with non-Team.
Proposed: "Appointees SHOULD NOT be from the W3C Team."
JJ: While I agree that Ian is probably correct, given that
this is a substantive change, it has not gone through process CG
(or AB) vetting, and the Director has not been consulted, I think
this should be held over for the next process rev
CMN: I recall a number of team appointees. And this is a substantive change.
And the director should be free t appoint whomever he likes -
if W3C can't find a way to make a Team member available, when
the director considers that person best-qualified for the place,
I think that's a problem.
If anything I would suggest that the change be the other way -
the restriction on not nominating a Team Member without W3M approval
should be removed. If the membership think that a particular team member
is one of the (typically two or three in any given year) best people to
represent them on the TAG I find it galling that W3C would not work out
how to respect that request from the membership.
I'm not planning to do anything about this without a resolution of the
AB or Process CG.
Deferred to a future revision of the Process Document
