[governance] Digital restrictions management in HTML standards

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Open membership criteria = stakeholders from any sector - government, industry, civil society, academia are able to gain membership .. possibly subject to criteria such as accepting a code of conduct and/or possible vetting to ensure that their previous track record does match the code of conduct (which would generally be best practice).

Equal participation - everybody has speaking and, where relevant, voting rights.  There are of course committee / working group chairs possible even in such a setup, and voting may be based on rough consensus, but chairs would necessarily have some additional rights [but that is an elected post so ..]

These are simplistic and I am sure some nuances can be found to tilt such organizations either way, from open all the way to rigidly closed.

--srs (iPad)

On 16-May-2013, at 12:48, Andrea Glorioso <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:

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