[OIDFSC] Closing inactive OpenID working groups

[Breno de Medeiros]

+ 1 for the closing of this groups

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 13:53, 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<http://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2010/01/OpenID_Process_Document_December_2009_Final_Approved.pdf>,
> “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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--Breno
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