Looks good to me.
Dimitris.
On 2019-09-05 8:20 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Public wrote:
Per discussion on today’s CABF call, below is the draft ballot that
will re-charter the Forum Infrastructure Working Group into the Forum
Infrastructure Subcommittee of the CA/Browser Forum. I’m posting this
draft now for people to review; if there are no major changes I’ll add
dates and start the clock on the discussion period for it.
Thanks,
Jos
*Ballot Forum-10: Re-charter Forum Infrastructure Work*
*Overview*
The Forum Infrastructure Working Group (FIWG) was chartered during a
period when the CABF Bylaws did not permit for the creation of
subcommittees at the Forum level (only under a particular Working
Group). Since the work the FIWG needed to undertake was pressing and
covered the needs of the Forum as a whole, it was chartered as a
Working Group to permit this work to begin under the existing Bylaws.
With the completion of the recent Bylaws changes, subcommittees may
now be constructed at the Forum level. In addition, the recent changes
to Bylaws and membership have identified a hole by which membership in
the FIWG could be used to “back-door” membership in the Forum as a
whole, an unintended consequence worth squashing.
This ballot, therefore, lays down the existing FIWG and immediately
re-charters a Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee to continue its work.
*Gory Details*
24 hours following the passage of this ballot:
1. The existing Forum Infrastructure Working Group will be dissolved
per the Bylaws section 5.3.2 item 3.
2. A new Infrastructure Subcommittee will be chartered under the CA/B
Forum, per the Bylaws section 5.6, with the Charter of that
Subcommittee as described below.
3. The existing mailing list for the FIWG may be repurposed for the
use of the Subcommittee. The existing wiki pages from the FIWG
will be archived, and a new space created for the Subcommittee's
use under the main Forum namespace.
*Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee (FIS) Charter*
*Scope*- The authorized scope of the Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee
shall be as follows:
* To oversee the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of the
common CA/Browser Forum website and wiki resources;
* To coordinate updates to public and Forum-facing web and wiki
content in support of the Forum Webmaster role established in the
Bylaws;
* To create and manage the division of access and content spaces
required to help ensure the separation of the work of various
Working Groups and accompanying IP commitments, as described in
the Forum’s IPR Policy;
* To manage the production and versioning of guidelines and other
documents produced by the Forum's subcommittees;
* To manage the Forum-level email lists and to offer management of
working-group and subcommittee mailing lists as needed in support
of the Forum List Manager role established in the Bylaws;
* To perform other activities ancillary to the primary activities
listed above.
*End Date*- This Subcommittee shall continue until it is dissolved by
a vote of the CA/B Forum.
*Deliverables*- The Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee shall be
responsible for delivering wiki and mailing list services to the Forum
on an ongoing basis, and supplying access to these and to the
management tools for these as is appropriate and required by the
Forum. The subcommittee shall not propose any changes to the Bylaws or
IPR agreements itself: where issues with these are identified, they
may be redirected to the Forum as a whole or to appropriate
subcommittees or working groups for further consideration.
*Participation*- Any member of the CAB Forum is eligible and may
declare their participation in the Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee
by requesting to be added to the mailing list.
*Chair*- Jos Purvis shall be the initial Chair of the Forum
Infrastructure Subcommittee. The Chair shall not have a fixed term,
but the Subcommittee may change its Chair from time to time by
consensus of the Members participating in the Subcommittee or by
voting method chosen by the Members by consensus.
*Communication*- Subcommittee communications and documents shall be
posted on mailing-lists where the mail-archives are publicly
accessible, and the Subcommittee shall publish minutes of its meetings
to the Forum wiki.
*Effect of Forum Bylaws Amendment for Subcommittees*- In the event the
Forum Bylaws are amended to add or modify general rules governing
Forum Subcommittees and how they operate (“General Rules”), the
provisions of the General Rules shall take precedence over this charter.
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