[OIDFSC] Closing inactive OpenID working groups

[David Recordon]

+1

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Allen Tom <allentomdude at gmail.com> wrote:
> [+openid-specs@ to reach a wider audience]
> +1 for closing the 6 working groups listed in Mike's post.
> While we're doing spec housecleaning, we should also try to finalize the
> OpenID/OAuth Hybrid and OpenID UI Extensions. AFAIK, there has been no
> changes to either of these specs for about a year, and vendors have already
> launched implementations.
> Allen
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> At the latest OpenID board meeting, I took the action item to have the
>> specifications close down inactive working groups.  This is to help
>> eliminate confusion among the members about where work is occurring and
>> focus people’s efforts on the active working groups.
>>
>>
>>
>> Per section 4.4 of the OpenID process document, “The Specifications
>> Council may recommend closure of a WG at any time that the WG has not had
>> Minimum Membership for six consecutive months at the time of closure, and
>> such recommendation will promptly be submitted to a vote of the OIDF
>> membership, in accordance with the voting procedures in §3.”  “Minimum
>> Membership” is defined in section 1.6 as “five contributors”.
>>
>>
>>
>> It’s clear that all of these working groups meet this criteria in terms of
>> lack of participation by 5 members within the last 6 months:
>>
>> ·         v.Next Core
>>
>> ·         v.Next Discovery
>>
>> ·         v.Next Attributes
>>
>> ·         v.Next Certification
>>
>> ·         v.Next User Experience
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, given the consensus to merge the Connect work into the Artifact
>> Binding work, I would argue that we should close the Connect working group
>> at the same time, so that it’s clear that people wanting to contribute to it
>> should join the Artifact Binding working group, where the work is actually
>> proceeding.  Formally, there have been 7 contributors on the Connect working
>> group list in the last 6 months:  Breno de Medeiros, Chris Messina, Chuck
>> Mortimore, David Recordon, John Bradley, Joseph Smarr, and Nat Sakimura.
>> The most recent contribution was 11/3/10.  So we could either wait a few
>> months to close it, or if three of the above contributors agree that it
>> should be closed, I believe we could proceed with the membership vote to
>> close the working group at the same time.  (I’d rather not have two
>> membership votes closing working groups.)
>>
>>
>>
>> So after a discussion period, unless people form consensus around a
>> different course of action, I’m going to propose a specs council vote that
>> we close all 6 of these working groups.
>>
>>
>>
>>                                                                 Thanks
>> all,
>>
>>                                                                 -- Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S.  The present membership of the specifications council is:
>>
>> ·         Johnny Bufu
>>
>> ·         Breno de Medeiros
>>
>> ·         Dick Hardt
>>
>> ·         Mike Jones
>>
>> ·         David Recordon
>>
>> ·         Nat Sakimura
>>
>> ·         Allen Tom
>>
>>
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