<div dir="ltr">Hi Mike,<div>I agree that there hasn't been much activity in the HEART working group for a while. My assumption would be that the specifications in the HEART working group would be transferred to the AB/Connect working group. Is my understanding correct? Are there any outstanding open issues that need to be closed?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Bjorn</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM Michael Jones via specs-council <<a href="mailto:openid-specs-council@lists.openid.net">openid-specs-council@lists.openid.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4044308169180349350">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Now that we have a repopulated
<a href="https://openid.net/specs-council/" target="_blank">Specifications Council</a>, I believe it’s time that we exercise our responsibility to recommend closing of a working group.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Section 4.4 of <a href="https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OIDF_Process-Document_Final_2024-10-19.pdf" target="_blank">
https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OIDF_Process-Document_Final_2024-10-19.pdf</a> says:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Section 4.7 says:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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" target="_blank">
March 2022</a>. The last commit to the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/openid/heart/src/master/" target="_blank">
working group repository</a> was in 2018.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If there was ever a clear candidate for closure, this is it!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Spec council members (John, Mark, Dick, Bjorn, Dima, Nat), please reply-all with your thoughts.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"> -- Mike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Kind Regards,<div>Bjorn</div></div></div>