On July 7, 2010, I issued a consensus call, on behalf of the registrars, to determine whether there is sufficient community consensus to begin formalizing the AFS protocol standards process as described in Simon Wilkinson's proposed charter, draft-wilkinson-afs3-standardisation-00.txt. Our goal was not to formally adopt a final charter, which is a decision not within the registrars' power to make. Rather, it was to discover whether there existed the consensus necessary to begin an election.
I am pleased to report that the registrars agree that such a consensus does exist. We received comments in support of Simon's proposal from a significant number of participants (listed below), and no comments in opposition. Several individuals made comments on specific points in the proposal, also detailed below. However, none of these comments related specifically to the organizational structure or the elections process, and so we do not believe any of them prevents us moving forward with election of the first chairs. The specific comments raised were these: - Tom Keiser says the IPR boilerplate needs to be updated. - Andrew Deason asks about a process for changing the process. - Andrew also asked whether RFC-Editor had been consulted. - Marcus Watts wanted the ability to include pictures in documents. - Marcus also raised an issue about when code points should be assigned. - Marcus also wanted to reopen the IPR boilerplate discussion. As formal development and adoption of its own charter will be one of the new group's first tasks, I encourage participants to consider and discuss these issues. As a result of this determination, the registrars believe we are now ready to begin the elections process. Shortly I will be sending out a message to that end, detailing the election timeline, listing the eligible voters, and calling for nominations. The following individuals sent comments supporting the proposal: Gary Buhrmaster <[email protected]> Alf Wachsmann <[email protected]> Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> Steven Jenkins <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Matt Benjamin <[email protected]> Tom Keiser <[email protected]> Marc Dionne <[email protected]> Andrew Deason <[email protected]> Alejandro Sedeno <[email protected]> Marcus Watts <[email protected]> David Howells <[email protected]> Tony D'Amato <[email protected]> Douglas E. Engert <[email protected]> Todd Lewis <[email protected]> Michael Meffie <[email protected]> Love Hornquist-Astrand <[email protected]> Tomas Olsson <[email protected]> Jonathan Wheeler <[email protected]> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[email protected]> For the registrars _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
