Technical Architecture Group Participation Comment

From Revising W3C Process Community Group

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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