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On 2011/02/22, at 7:29, John Bradley <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 as long as we are clear Connect is just merging with AB, and the final 
> name or version is TBA.
> 
> John B.
> On 2011-02-21, at 6:57 PM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:
> 
>> + 1 for the closing of this groups
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 13:53, Mike Jones <[email protected]> 
>> 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
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> --Breno
> 
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