[step2] OpenID UI Extension - Draft 0.1 (formerly known as the Popup Extension)

[Breno]

I agree. The combination of voting requirement for the creation of WG + the
desire to keep IPR process clean (meaning no meaningful discussions prior to
the formation of the WG) combine into a heavy process which slows down
innovation.
Is there any reason why the formation of the WGs can't be streamlined?

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes. I am personally OK for not having any vote but we MUST have the
> IPR agreements in place. Otherwise, people would not be able to use
> the resulting spec.
>
> Actually, having the members to vote for the creation of WG is an
> overkill, IMHO.
> It should just be doing at the specs approval stage instead, but
> currently, this
> heavy weight process is what we have, unfortunately.
>
> What is the sentiment of the community on skipping the initial membership
> vote?
> I personally think it suffices to prohibit WGs having "OpenID" in its
> name at the
> time of creation and allow the TM usages only after it was ratified as
> a standard.
>
> =nat
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> > I think the Specs Council has to vote to recommend the creation of the
> WG,
> > then it has to be put to vote.
> >
> > It also looks like each person joining the WG will need to have his (of
> her)
> > employer sign an IPR Agreement explicitly saying that the employee is
> > allowed to work on that WG.
> >
> > Allen
> >
> > Chris Messina wrote:
> >
> > I believe that the request to turn this discussion into a WG discussion
> was
> > made several days ago.
> > This is one area where we must make our procedures not impede progress!
> > Clearly people are excited and want to push this through; while the IPR
> > concern is a real one, the WG process should not work against getting
> things
> > done.
> > I see that, in order to create a working group [1], there must be a
> > membership vote of 7 days where at least 20% of the membership votes in
> > favor of the creation of the group.
> > It's unclear how we initiate this vote, or if it's already been
> requested.
> > Perhaps you could clear this up on the wiki page and also let us know
> where
> > we are in the process of creating the WG?
> > Chris
> > [1] http://wiki.openid.net/Working-Groups
> >
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