On Dec 4, 2007, at 23:30, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 2) Knowing who at Sun can speak for Sun regarding the project > > The changes to the OpenDS governance model were made by Sun > employees - the question seems to hinge on whether they included > the ones given voice to speak officially for Sun in that project. > > We're more fortunate in that we can point to the definitive > approval > of the OpenSolaris Charter by Glenn Weinberg, and of the > OpenSolaris > Constitution by Jeff Jackson (both of which were the VP of Solaris > engineering at the respective times). > > If we need an official statement from Sun on an OpenSolaris issue, > who can make it? The VP of Solaris engineering? A director > on his staff he appoints (such as Mr. Franklin)? Ian? Simon?
The person with the fiduciary responsibility for Sun's Solaris assets is the VP of Solaris Engineering, currently Jeff Jackson. Only he or his designate can authorise changes to their disposition. Right now he appears to have designated William Franklin to deputise, but for any significant change I'd still recommend getting his explicit approval on record, preferably with ink on paper as we did for the charter and governance. S.
