[OpenID board] [board-private] Reminder: OIDF BOD vote on Nat's 4 spec process improvement motions

[David Recordon]

Hey Brian,
I don't believe this captures the latest motions that Nat made.

--David

On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Brian Kissel wrote:

> When: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:00 AM-6:30 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific  
> Time (US & Canada).
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> FYI, this is a reminder that the online vote for Nat’s four motions  
> will start on Friday Jan 23rd.
>
> Followings are the proposed motions that I would like the board to  
> consider. There are two types: one that can take effect immediately,  
> and one that requires board and membership voting.
>
> I. For immediate implementation of the current process:
>
> One of the obstacles that we have found during the process was that  
> it was kind of hard to get the specs council to deliver the  
> recommendation in a timely fashion. It has seen some improvement  
> recently, but we want to make sure to continue it. Thus, I would  
> like to propose the following:
>
> BE IT RESOLVED that the OIDF Committee Liason is directed to act as  
> the coordinator for the specification council so that specification  
> council create a recommendation for the membership about a formal  
> working group proposal within 15 days of the complete proposal being  
> circulated on specs at openid.net to comply to the current OpenID  
> process.
> II. Improvements of curent porcess
>
> As a longer term solution, I would like to propose the following  
> three motions. The first two are to make sure the timely and  
> effective response from the specs council, and the last one is to  
> protect the OpenID(TM) as well as to make it easier to create a WG  
> so that all the discussion will be done inside the WG and the output  
> is IPR clean.
>
> BE IT RESOLVED that the members of OpenID Foundation board have  
> agreed to amend the OpenID process document so that should the  
> specifications council not create a recommendation for the  
> membership about a formal working group proposal within 15 days of  
> the complete proposal being circulated on specs at openid.net, then the  
> proposal may proceed to a membership vote for approval.
> BE IT RESOLVED that the members of OpenID Foundation board have  
> agreed to amend the OpenID process document so that should specs  
> council members not participate in the discussion of two consecutive  
> working group proposals, they will be deemed to have resigned, and  
> new specs council members who are committed to participating in the  
> process will be appointed to replace them.
> BE IT RESOLVED that the members of OpenID Foundation board have  
> agreed to amend the OpenID process document to clarify that no draft  
> may claim OpenID trademark until it is ratified to be an  
> implementor's draft status or full specification status.
>
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