Thank you for the clarification. Yes, I will be at the IIW.
Looking forward to meet you there! =nat Mike Jones wrote: > My apologies then. I took your sentence "I do not think Local Chapters > policy needs to wait for the completion of such." as your agreement to > proceed to approve the revised local chapters policy without the procedures > yet being defined for recognition of national chapters, with the > understanding that we would work on that separately, and when ready, approve > them as a second document complementary to the local chapters policy. > > As a pragmatic matter, no reference is needed to a national chapters policy > in the local chapters policy for a national chapters policy to be adopted, > therefore the document as approved today in no way impedes the creation and > adoption of a national chapters policy. Furthermore, until such time as one > is adopted, the deleted language about how the OIDF may choose identify a > local chapter as a designated national chapter gains potential national > chapters nothing, because the OIDF would not ever recognize a national > chapter without a national chapters policy being in place anyway. And in the > mean time, the now-approved draft is actually cleaner without this dangling > reference to a not-yet-defined national chapters policy. > > Finally, I'll add that the approved policy achieved your major goal of > enabling people to be members of local chapters without a requirement for > them to also join the OIDF. > > Therefore, I would politely ask that OpenID Japan choose to become a local > chapter of the OIDF under the approved policy at this time (a policy that you > get a lot of credit for creating!). > > We can then continue to do more good work together on creating a national > chapters policy that is complementary to the local chapters policy. > > Thanks again to you and your colleagues for your passion to promote OpenID in > Japan! > > Any chance I'll get to see you at IIW next week? Hope so! > > Sincerely, > -- Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nat Sakimura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:58 PM > To: [email protected]; Mike Jones > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Might Miss the Call > > Hi Mike, > > What do you mean by "without language about a national chapters policy."? > You mean dropping the sentence entirely from the Local Chapters Policy? > Then I have not said yes to it. > > =nat > > Mike Jones wrote: > >> About the local chapters policy, we have an agreement from Nat and Snorri >> that they are good with us approving a local chapters policy based on the >> current drafts and without language about a national chapters policy. This >> is significant progress and would let Europe and Japan become local chapters >> under a recognized policy. Therefore, I'm going to produce a cleaned-up >> draft and have us vote on it. With respect to the IPR, this text isn't a >> change from our existing approved policy, therefore I don't see this as a >> blocking issue for approving a local chapters policy that brings everyone >> into the fold. >> >> About the specifications council, the report on the PAPE working group is >> DUE BY SATURDAY. Therefore waiting until Monday isn't ok. If Josh has not >> responded and you try to call him one more time, then you and Johnny should >> act as the majority and notify the board and Dick and I who the 5 members >> are today so we can start to work on the report. We only have 2 days as it >> is! >> >> Hope to have you on the call. >> >> Thanks, >> -- Mike >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Recordon >> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:31 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [OpenID board] Might Miss the Call >> >> Hi all, >> I'm currently in Dublin and was planning on making the call via Skype >> though the hotel internet access is quite shoddy. I'll try to call >> in, but if I don't make it here are my thoughts given the agenda. >> >> * General business (minutes approved, finance update) >> +1 to approving the last set of minutes >> >> * Local chapters policy review and vote - Mike Jones >> It sounds like great progress has been made in the latest draft of the >> policy, though given the current discussion it doesn't feel like we're >> quite there yet. The two outstanding issues seem to be how to deal >> with "national chapters" and the wording around IP in terms of if we >> can allow Creative Commons licensing to make things simpler. I am not >> in support of approving the current local chapters policy and then >> later writing a national chapters policy. Instead I think that we >> should have the local chapters policy address local/national chapters >> so that we have one fewer policy. As it stands I am -1 for approving >> the current local chapters policy. >> >> * Member election logistics for PAPE working group - Mike Jones >> Not quite sure what this means, if someone is able to clarify before >> the meeting I'll give my thoughts. :) >> >> * Report from specifications council - ? >> Johnny Bufu and I have reached consensus around the five editor >> appointed people for the specs council. We're still waiting to hear >> back from Josh. I pinged him about it yesterday and will do so again >> today. I'm hopeful that we can be done with the council by our >> meeting Monday though we still need to ask the five people if they're >> willing to be on it. >> >> * Amended bylaws >> I was on the call last week along with Bill, Mike, Dave, and David >> around amending the bylaws. I believe there is now a new draft of >> them which I am -1 for approving. I am not convinced that a forever >> growing board with a small executive committee is the right structure >> for the Foundation. I'm hoping that we'll be discussing this next >> Monday during the F2F. >> >> Thanks! >> --David >> >> _______________________________________________ >> board mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board >> _______________________________________________ >> board mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board >> >> > > -- > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. > XDI.ORG Vice Chair > > -- Nat Sakimura (=nat) Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. XDI.ORG Vice Chair _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
