[OpenID board] [step2] OpenID UI Extension - Draft 0.1 (formerly known as the Popup Extension)

[Nat Sakimura]

I do not know why it became like this, since I was not part of the
discussion when this process was made. I suspect it was the brand
management issue judging from the previous discussions. So, I have put
forward the amendment proposal to the process. (This time, to make the
TM requirement clear. On the hind sight, I probably should have gone
ahead to remove the initial voting requirement, but since I did not
know the community's sentiment, I did not go quite that far.)

In reality, what is important is the IPR agreement, and membership
vote should not be needed, so that as soon as proposers flock around
and formed the scope, bang, the tech work should be able to be
started.

Guys: If you think the initial membership voting requirement is an
overkill, please raise your voice. I think this board can act swiftly
to look at it.

=nat

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Breno <breno.demedeiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree. The combination of voting requirement for the creation of WG + the
> desire to keep IPR process clean (meaning no meaningful discussions prior to
> the formation of the WG) combine into a heavy process which slows down
> innovation.
> Is there any reason why the formation of the WGs can't be streamlined?
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. I am personally OK for not having any vote but we MUST have the
>> IPR agreements in place. Otherwise, people would not be able to use
>> the resulting spec.
>>
>> Actually, having the members to vote for the creation of WG is an
>> overkill, IMHO.
>> It should just be doing at the specs approval stage instead, but
>> currently, this
>> heavy weight process is what we have, unfortunately.
>>
>> What is the sentiment of the community on skipping the initial membership
>> vote?
>> I personally think it suffices to prohibit WGs having "OpenID" in its
>> name at the
>> time of creation and allow the TM usages only after it was ratified as
>> a standard.
>>
>> =nat
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> > I think the Specs Council has to vote to recommend the creation of the
>> > WG,
>> > then it has to be put to vote.
>> >
>> > It also looks like each person joining the WG will need to have his (of
>> > her)
>> > employer sign an IPR Agreement explicitly saying that the employee is
>> > allowed to work on that WG.
>> >
>> > Allen
>> >
>> > Chris Messina wrote:
>> >
>> > I believe that the request to turn this discussion into a WG discussion
>> > was
>> > made several days ago.
>> > This is one area where we must make our procedures not impede progress!
>> > Clearly people are excited and want to push this through; while the IPR
>> > concern is a real one, the WG process should not work against getting
>> > things
>> > done.
>> > I see that, in order to create a working group [1], there must be a
>> > membership vote of 7 days where at least 20% of the membership votes in
>> > favor of the creation of the group.
>> > It's unclear how we initiate this vote, or if it's already been
>> > requested.
>> > Perhaps you could clear this up on the wiki page and also let us know
>> > where
>> > we are in the process of creating the WG?
>> > Chris
>> > [1] http://wiki.openid.net/Working-Groups
>> >
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