Re: Draft Charter seems to required that the IDPF and W3C plans go through...

Leonard you are right regarding these assumptions.

As far as what the IDPF membership will "allow" of course nearly 90% voted
in favor of the combination, but the IDPF Board must still approve
definitive agreements which have not yet been finalized and for any number
of reasons it is possible that the combination might not happen.

There is no scenario contemplated where the EPUB IP would not be
transferred to W3C if the combination happens. Of course it's possible that
the EPUB IP could be transferred to W3C without the organizational
combination being completed but that would not materially change the draft
charter assumptions and anyway that is not the plan that has already been
approved by both organizations.

The MOU that was approved by both organizations specifies a deadline of
January 28, 2017 for the combination and IP transfer. If the deadline was 8
months away that would be another matter, but  I think it would be a waste
of time to spend effort now on anything else than the assumption that the
combination (which includes the IP transfer) has happened already (i.e. by
the time this is an actual charter proposal it can be assumed to have
already happened)..

But an explicit statement about this assumption should probably be in the
early draft.

Alternatively the DPUB IG could decide to suspend discussion about the
prospective charter until next month.

But trying to either have the charter ignore or come up with hypothetical
alternatives to something that's been approved and is expected in a month
would seem unreasonable to me (even if I was a disinterested party, which
obviously I am not).

--Bill


On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
wrote:

> Many parts of the current (very early) Draft Charter are tied to the
> assumptions that
>
> (a)     the combination of the two organizations will complete
>
> (b)     the IDPF membership will allow the transition of EPUB3 to W3C
>
>
>
> It seems to me that since neither of those is a fait accompli, we should
> not be building our charter around them.  Either that, or the charter
> should clearly spell out alternatives in the case that one or both fail to
> happen.
>
>
>
> Leonard
>
>
>



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