TrustCor votes YES on Ballot FORUM-10 Regards,
Neil > On 30 Sep 2019, at 16:27, Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Public > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The following ballot is proposed by Jos Purvis of Cisco, endorsed by Wayne > Thayer of Mozilla and Ben Wilson of DigiCert. Voting begins at 2100 UTC 30 > September 2019 and runs through 2100 UTC 7 October 2019. > > Ballot Forum-10: Re-charter Forum Infrastructure Work > Overview > The Forum Infrastructure Working Group (FIWG) was chartered during a period > when the CABF Bylaws did not permit for the creation of subcommittees at the > Forum level (only under a particular Working Group). Since the work the FIWG > needed to undertake was pressing and covered the needs of the Forum as a > whole, it was chartered as a Working Group to permit this work to begin under > the existing Bylaws. > With the completion of the recent Bylaws changes, subcommittees may now be > constructed at the Forum level. In addition, the recent changes to Bylaws and > membership have identified a hole by which membership in the FIWG could be > used to “back-door” membership in the Forum as a whole, an unintended > consequence worth squashing. > This ballot, therefore, lays down the existing FIWG and immediately > re-charters a Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee to continue its work. > > Gory Details > 24 hours after this ballot passes the following will occur: > 1. The existing Forum Infrastructure Working Group will be dissolved > per the Bylaws section 5.3.2 item 3. > 2. A new Infrastructure Subcommittee will be chartered under the CA/B > Forum, per the Bylaws section 5.6, with the Charter of that Subcommittee as > described below. > 3. The existing mailing list for the FIWG will be repurposed for the use > of the Subcommittee, following an announcement to that end on the existing > FIWG mailer. > 4. The existing wiki pages from the FIWG will be archived, and a new > space created for the Subcommittee's use under the main Forum namespace. > > Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee (FIS) Charter > Scope - The authorized scope of the Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee shall > be as follows: > · To oversee the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of the > common CA/Browser Forum website and wiki resources; > · To coordinate updates to public and Forum-facing web and wiki > content in support of the Forum Webmaster role established in the Bylaws; > · To create and manage the division of access and content spaces > required to help ensure the separation of the work of various Working Groups > and accompanying IP commitments, as described in the Forum’s IPR Policy; > · To manage the technical means of production of guidelines and other > documents produced by the Forum's subcommittees; > · To manage the Forum-level email lists and to offer management of > working-group and subcommittee mailing lists as needed in support of the > Forum List Manager role established in the Bylaws; > · To perform other activities ancillary to the primary activities > listed above. > End Date - This Subcommittee shall continue until it is dissolved by a vote > of the CA/B Forum. > Deliverables - The Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee shall be responsible for > delivering wiki and mailing list services to the Forum on an ongoing basis, > and supplying access to these and to the management tools for these as is > appropriate and required by the Forum. The subcommittee shall not propose any > changes to the Bylaws or IPR agreements itself: where issues with these are > identified, they may be redirected to the Forum as a whole or to appropriate > subcommittees or working groups for further consideration. > Participation - Any member of the CAB Forum is eligible and may declare their > participation in the Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee by requesting to be > added to the mailing list. > Chair - Jos Purvis shall be the initial Chair of the Forum Infrastructure > Subcommittee. The Chair shall not have a fixed term, but the Subcommittee may > change its Chair from time to time by consensus of the Members participating > in the Subcommittee or by voting method chosen by the Members by consensus. > Communication - Subcommittee communications and documents shall be posted on > mailing-lists where the mail-archives are publicly accessible, and the > Subcommittee shall publish minutes of its meetings to the Forum wiki. > Effect of Forum Bylaws Amendment for Subcommittees - In the event the Forum > Bylaws are amended to add or modify general rules governing Forum > Subcommittees and how they operate (“General Rules”), the provisions of the > General Rules shall take precedence over this charter. > > Key Dates > Ballot Discussion Begins > 20 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC > Ballot Discussion Concludes > 27 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC > Ballot Vote Begins > 30 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC > Ballot Vote Ends > 7 Oct 2019 21:00 UTC > > > > -- > Jos Purvis ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) > .:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services > PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 (desk) > <smime.p7s>_______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > [email protected] > https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public > <https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public> > <smime.p7s>_______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public > <https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public> > _______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public > <https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public>
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