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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Now that we have a repopulated
<a href="https://openid.net/specs-council/">Specifications Council</a>, I believe it’s time that we exercise our responsibility to recommend closing of a working group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Section 4.4 of <a href="https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OIDF_Process-Document_Final_2024-10-19.pdf">
https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OIDF_Process-Document_Final_2024-10-19.pdf</a> says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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 for a Supermajority confirmation vote of the Board, in accordance with the voting procedures in §3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Section 4.7 says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Specifications Council may recommend closure of a WG at any time that the WG has not had an Editor for the immediately prior 30 days, and such recommendation will promptly be submitted
for a Supermajority confirmation vote of the Board, in accordance with the voting procedures in §3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">There hasn’t been any e-mail sent to the working group mailing list, other than by Mike Leszcz, since
<a href="https://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs-heart/Week-of-Mon-20220328/thread.html">
March 2022</a>. The last commit to the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/openid/heart/src/master/">
working group repository</a> was in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If there was ever a clear candidate for closure, this is it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Spec council members (John, Mark, Dick, Bjorn, Dima, Nat), please reply-all with your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> -- Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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