Google votes Yes to ballot FORUM-10 On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:27 AM Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Public < public@cabforum.org> wrote:
> The following ballot is proposed by Jos Purvis of Cisco, endorsed by Wayne > Thayer of Mozilla and Ben Wilson of DigiCert. Voting begins at *2100 UTC > 30 September 2019* and runs through *2100 UTC 7 October 2019*. > > > > *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 after this ballot passes the following will occur: > > 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 will be repurposed for the > use of the Subcommittee, following an announcement to that end on the > existing FIWG mailer. > > 4. 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 technical means of production 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. > > > > *Key Dates* > > *Ballot Discussion Begins* > > 20 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC > > *Ballot Discussion Concludes* > > 27 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC > > *Ballot Vote Begins* > > 30 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC > > *Ballot Vote Ends* > > 7 Oct 2019 21:00 UTC > > > > > > > > -- > Jos Purvis (jopur...@cisco.com) > .:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services > PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 <(919)%20991-9114> (desk) > _______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > Public@cabforum.org > https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public >
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