[OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

[Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)]

This is to alert all that we have a significant shortfall in the vote re:
the IPR process.  Votes are needed now.

Many members may not be aware of the very high bar set for changes of this
sort.  A bit of history may be helpful. The discussion at the time was that
the founding members had put a fair amount of effort into drafting the
original documents and working out the necessary IP compromises, and they
did not want modification to be too easy.

As Nat suggests below there is a clear consensus that the proposed changes
are critically important to meet current needs. I urge you to vote now.
The poll URL is https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/21

Don Thibeau
don at OIDF.org
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
http://openid.net

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:22:01 +0900
From: Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>
Subject: [OpenID] Help us change the IPR Process so that we can create
	WGs easier (was Vote Now)
To: openid-general at lists.openid.net
Message-ID: <4B147DC9.1030905 at nri.co.jp>
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Thanks very much Don.

We need to become able to spin up WGs much easier than now.
This IPR process change enable us to do so.
We badly need it to make us able to move forward for things like Authn 
v.next, AX 1.1, 2.0, Artifact Binding etc.

Please do vote (in favour :-). The poll URL is

https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/21

Cheers,

=nat

(2009/12/01 11:03), Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) wrote:
>
> Two important _all_ member activities are currently underway: the IPR 
> Process revision voting and community board seat nominations.  I 
> encourage you to make your views heard on these key issues for our 
> foundation.
>
> IPR Process voting ends on the 4^th . Please vote today if you haven't 
> already done so. https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls
>