<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2010-05-24, at 2:53 PM, David Recordon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>There are a variety of Work Group proposals waiting on the Specifications Council which have been posted to the specs@ list per the IPR process. If we don't issue a recommendation for each, they're automatically approved after fifteen days. Given that the Attributes Work Group will be automatically approved tomorrow (and doesn't meet the minimum number of proposers) I wanted to start this thread now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>OpenID v.Next Attributes Work Group (will be automatically approved on the 25th) - <a href="http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs/2010-May/006723.html">http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs/2010-May/006723.html</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>YES I think a number of people have asked to be added as proposers. I would like to be added as a proposer.</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div><br></div><div>OpenID Certification Work Group - <a href="http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs/2010-May/006781.html">http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs/2010-May/006781.html</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div>YES</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div>
<div>OpenID v.Next Discovery Work Group - <a href="http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs-council/2010-May/000257.html">http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs-council/2010-May/000257.html</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>YES</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>
</div><div>Connect Work Group - <a href="http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs/2010-May/006921.html">http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs/2010-May/006921.html</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>NO I have several outstanding questions on this WG that have yet to be answered and consider it incomplete, potentially contravenes the purpose of the Foundation and may cause legal liability.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>Please reply to this thread with a YES or NO for each Work Group.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Each proposal must have at least five proposers and cannot contain a trademarked term (including "OpenID") in the Work Group name. If voting NO, the following are the only four reasons allowed by our IPR Process:</div>
<div> (a) an incomplete Proposal (i.e., failure to comply with §4.1);</div><div> (b) a determination that the proposal contravenes the OpenID community’s purpose;</div><div> (c) a determination that the proposed WG does not have sufficient support to succeed or to deliver proposed deliverables within projected completion dates; or</div>
<div> (d) a determination that the proposal is likely to cause legal liability for the OIDF or others.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>--David</div><div>(Vice Chair of the Technical Committee)</div>
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