<p>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. </p>
<h3>I. For immediate implementation of the current process: </h3>
<p>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:</p>
<p><em><strong>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 <a href="mailto:specs@openid.net">specs@openid.net</a> to comply to the current
OpenID process.</strong></em></p>
<h3>II. Improvements of current process</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<ul><li><em><strong>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 <a href="mailto:specs@openid.net">specs@openid.net</a>, then the
proposal may proceed to a membership vote for approval.</strong></em></li><li><em><strong>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.</strong></em></li><li><em><strong>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 achieve
full specification status.</strong></em></li></ul>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Brian Kissel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com">bkissel@janrain.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi Nat,</p>
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<p>Can you send the 4 motions for the board vote so I can put them in the polling tool?</p>
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<p><span style="color: navy;">Thanks,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: navy;"><br>
Brian</span></p>
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