+1 for closing all 6 On 2011-02-21, at 1:53 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
> At the latest OpenID board meeting, I took the action item to have the > specifications close down inactive working groups. This is to help eliminate > confusion among the members about where work is occurring and focus people’s > efforts on the active working groups. > > Per section 4.4 of the OpenID process document, “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 to a vote of the OIDF membership, > in accordance with the voting procedures in §3.” “Minimum Membership” is > defined in section 1.6 as “five contributors”. > > It’s clear that all of these working groups meet this criteria in terms of > lack of participation by 5 members within the last 6 months: > · v.Next Core > · v.Next Discovery > · v.Next Attributes > · v.Next Certification > · v.Next User Experience > > Also, given the consensus to merge the Connect work into the Artifact Binding > work, I would argue that we should close the Connect working group at the > same time, so that it’s clear that people wanting to contribute to it should > join the Artifact Binding working group, where the work is actually > proceeding. Formally, there have been 7 contributors on the Connect working > group list in the last 6 months: Breno de Medeiros, Chris Messina, Chuck > Mortimore, David Recordon, John Bradley, Joseph Smarr, and Nat Sakimura. The > most recent contribution was 11/3/10. So we could either wait a few months > to close it, or if three of the above contributors agree that it should be > closed, I believe we could proceed with the membership vote to close the > working group at the same time. (I’d rather not have two membership votes > closing working groups.) > > So after a discussion period, unless people form consensus around a different > course of action, I’m going to propose a specs council vote that we close all > 6 of these working groups. > > Thanks all, > -- Mike > > P.S. The present membership of the specifications council is: > · Johnny Bufu > · Breno de Medeiros > · Dick Hardt > · Mike Jones > · David Recordon > · Nat Sakimura > · Allen Tom >
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