Can you define "open membership criteria" and refine the notion of "equal participation rights", i.e. everyone has the same speaking rights? Everyone has the same decision-making rights?<br><br>On Thursday, May 16, 2013, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> A membership organization with open membership criteria and equal participation rights is definitely multistakeholder.<br>> --srs (iPad)<br>> On 16-May-2013, at 9:48, Andrea Glorioso <<a href="mailto:andrea@digitalpolicy.it">andrea@digitalpolicy.it</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> Dear Avri,<br>><br>> On May 15, 2013 10:25 PM, "Avri Doria" <<a href="mailto:avri@ella.com">avri@ella.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> On 15 May 2013, at 16:33, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<br>
>><br>>> > This is the problem with the inviolability of the W3C as one of the supposedly multi-stakeholder Internet [technical] community organisations,<br>>><br>>><br>>> i do not know if i already asked this on this list or elsewhere, but isn't W3C a membership organization.<br>
>> If so, in what ways is it multistakeholder?<br>><br>> Perhaps I misunderstood your question, but isn't a membership organisation which allows multiple stakeholders to become members, a multi-stakeholder organisation?<br>
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