BTW, to speed up the process under the current process a bit, there is one thing that we can do. Since the requirement is 20% of the membership, as soon as it reached the level, the board should be able to say "GO AHEAD!".
Am I wrong? =nat On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Nat Sakimura <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. I am personally OK for not having any vote but we MUST have the > IPR agreements in place. Otherwise, people would not be able to use > the resulting spec. > > Actually, having the members to vote for the creation of WG is an > overkill, IMHO. > It should just be doing at the specs approval stage instead, but > currently, this > heavy weight process is what we have, unfortunately. > > What is the sentiment of the community on skipping the initial membership > vote? > I personally think it suffices to prohibit WGs having "OpenID" in its > name at the > time of creation and allow the TM usages only after it was ratified as > a standard. > > =nat > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Allen Tom <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think the Specs Council has to vote to recommend the creation of the WG, >> then it has to be put to vote. >> >> It also looks like each person joining the WG will need to have his (of her) >> employer sign an IPR Agreement explicitly saying that the employee is >> allowed to work on that WG. >> >> Allen >> >> Chris Messina wrote: >> >> I believe that the request to turn this discussion into a WG discussion was >> made several days ago. >> This is one area where we must make our procedures not impede progress! >> Clearly people are excited and want to push this through; while the IPR >> concern is a real one, the WG process should not work against getting things >> done. >> I see that, in order to create a working group [1], there must be a >> membership vote of 7 days where at least 20% of the membership votes in >> favor of the creation of the group. >> It's unclear how we initiate this vote, or if it's already been requested. >> Perhaps you could clear this up on the wiki page and also let us know where >> we are in the process of creating the WG? >> Chris >> [1] http://wiki.openid.net/Working-Groups >> >> ________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> user-experience mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/user-experience >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> user-experience mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/user-experience >> >> > > > > -- > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > http://www.sakimura.org/en/ > -- Nat Sakimura (=nat) http://www.sakimura.org/en/ _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
