DigiCert votes YES on Ballot FORUM-10.

 

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> On Behalf Of Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Public
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Subject: [EXTERNAL][cabfpub] FW: Ballot FORUM-10: Re-charter Forum 
Infrastructure Working Group

 

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

 

 

 

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