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

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 23:42:50 UTC 2009


Would be great if Nat would add this to the wiki -- if only to try out
such a process and determine whether it works or not. I fear that
we're losing a lot of context/detail/accuracy by posting these kinds
of communications in multi-threaded emails.

Chris

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Brian Kissel <bkissel at janrain.com> wrote:
> Nat, is there a more current version than this?  The actual text of your proposal, which I took from your email, was the text I was intending to put into the board polling tool.
>
> If there is a more current version, please send it to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-private-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-private-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of David Recordon
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:36 PM
> To: board-private at openid.net
> Cc: board at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [board-private] Reminder: OIDF BOD vote on Nat's 4 spec process improvement motions
>
> 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).
>>
>> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>>
>> 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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