Alan Burlison writes: > OGB/2007/001 requires that you get the approval of both a community > group (2.7) *and* the OGB (2.2) which seems like overkill.
That would be overkill, if that's what it said. Instead, it says that the community groups provide the OGB with the required information about the project, and then the OGB announces the project and allocates resources -- as described in 2.3 and 2.4. It doesn't say that the OGB needs to "approve" the project. I agree that it seems slightly heavier and less obvious than it should be. The role described in 2.3 and 2.4 is roughly equivalent to what an RTI advocate does: making sure that the required work has actually been done by someone else. I think it'd be entirely reasonable to propose that this be a role that one or two people play on behalf of the OGB, rather than having the entire board do this for every project. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
