[OpenID board] Use of board-private list (Was: Re: Trademark problem?)

David Recordon drecordon at sixapart.com
Wed Dec 3 01:24:20 UTC 2008


Do you have such boilerplate guidelines that we could adopt in our  
bylaws?

--David

On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Chris Messina wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Martin Atkins  
> <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Messina wrote:
> >
> > This present case is mild on the whole, and represents a good case  
> where
> > any potential legal actions should be discussed in confidence. I  
> don't
> > disagree with that. But bounding the kinds of conversation that take
> > place on the private list to a specific set of topics or items which
> > match a public set of criteria is desirable, if it's not already  
> been done.
> >
>
> Chris,
>
> There is a standing policy that everything sent to the private list  
> must
> begin with a justification for it being private. Other board members  
> can
> and often do reject these justifications and the discussions move to  
> the
> public list.
>
> However, I agree that it would be good to make public exactly what
> justifications are allowed and ensure that any private conversations  
> fit
> into one of these categories.
>
> I've amended the page on the fan wiki with this statement. That  
> helps to explain current practice; it does not, however, constitute  
> an official or regular policy that might set a framework for what  
> falls within the realm of necessarily private.
>
> My intention is not force any uncomfortable situation, simply to  
> arrive at clarity and transparency so that questions in the future  
> can be treated in an expected and normal way. In other words, the  
> original trademark conversation might have been handled in a uniform  
> way had there been a stated policy governing the discussion of legal  
> concerns.
>
> There is nothing the OIDF bylaws that addresses matters like this,  
> even as a conventional approach to dealing with sensitive matters.  
> Surely we could borrow and tweak some existing boilerplate  
> guidelines having to do with such issues?
>
> Chris
>
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> Chris Messina
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