Re: 48-hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Set up moderated public subscription to ARIA working list,

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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>

On 3 December 2015 at 19:30, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> The ARIA WG discussed in today's teleconference the configuration of the
> working list public-aria@w3.org:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2015/12/03-aria-minutes.html
>
> There are requests from the public to be able to subscribe to this list.
> In the past we have used the wai-xtech list as an open discussion forum
> but the group desires to consolidate its discussions. On the other hand,
> posts from people who are not participants in the group could
> potentially present problems with respect to the patent policy
> commitments that participants in the group have made. Participants in
> the group also commit to exercise technical competence in one's role,
> the ability to act fairly, and social competence in one's role, and if
> people join the list without those commitments we could have problems
> maintaining a productive discussion. Yet the group would like to be able
> to enable input from a wider base than the Working Group itself.
>
> The resolution of the teleconference was to adopt a policy that public
> subscription to the list will be allowed, but it will be carried out via
> a manual process, rather than automatic self-subscribe. A request to
> subscribe would be directed to the staff contact, who would reply with a
> short set of commitments asked of list subscribers, and upon receiving
> an affirmative reply, would subscribe the person. This would allow
> public subscription while allowing us to document equal commitments
> between Working Group participants and other list subscribers.
>
> ACTION TO TAKE
>
> According to the ARIA WG Decision Policy [1], this CfC is now open for
> objection, comment, as well as statements of support via email. Silence
> will be interpreted as support, though messages of support are certainly
> welcome.
>
> If you object to any part of this proposed action, or have comments
> concerning this proposal, please respond by replying on list to this
> message no later than 23:59 (Midnight) Boston Time, Tuesday 8 December
> 2015.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/decision-policy
>
> Rich
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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