On 06/02/11 17:56, Kyle Simpson wrote:
Is it available for general public members to register for an account to create
strawman proposals for ES?
No, it's an Ecma TC39 resource. Ecma needs IPR handoff per its patent covenant
so this can't be a free-for-all, for better or worse.
So if a non-TC39 member wants to create suggestions and proposals and ideas for
the community to discuss, am I to understand that not only this list, but also
the wiki that this list so frequently references, are not really intended for
that?
There've been several times on this list in various discussion threads where it was clear
that only official-wiki-based strawmans were things people wanted to seriously discuss.
And now to find out that such strawmans cannot even be authored by any of us
non-committee members, it seems like it further reinforces the desire that there be some
other forum for the "Rest of us"T to use to talk about *our* ideas, not just
the ideas of the committee members.
What's the best way for such informal and non-committee-sponsored discussions
to proceed?
You can either become an ECMA member or convince one of the existing members to
advance your proposal. Having spent far more time than I would have liked on
process discussions at the ECMA General Assembly level, there are good legal
reasons for doing things this way. IPR issues do come up and standards
organizations have been burned by them.
Waldemar
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