Finalizing DAP new charter

Hi,

As you may recall, the charter of our group expires by the end of the 
year, so we need to go through the process of rechartering before then.

I had started and announced a while ago a repository to develop this new 
charter:
https://github.com/w3c/dap-charter

I've been going through the open issues and questions and came up with a 
charter that I think is now close to being ready:
   http://w3c.github.io/dap-charter/DeviceAPICharter.html

Some of the choices I made in preparing that draft are potentially 
controversial:
* the new charter adopts the new Document and Software copyright license 
(the same the new WebPlatform WG is using); among other things, it 
facilitates the integration of work being co-developed with Community 
Groups and integration with open source projects, but it also opens the 
door for our specs to be forked

* there is a provision to recharter the group later with only new 
deliverables that ask for the AC/Director review for a simplified 
process (section 3.2).

* I removed all the work items from the current charter that don't have 
a specific recent proposal on the table; the only exception to this is 
the Network Information API since I've been hearing conflicting views on 
its future (but it's most certainly being implemented in mobile chrome 
and firefox)

* I've added the asynchronous decision policy which means that any 
teleconf/F2F decision can be reconsidered within 10 working days by 
people that were not able to attend the said synchronous meeting

* I've made up milestones for documents, either based on the ones in the 
WebRTC charter for the media capture task force deliverables, or based 
on my understanding of progress

* I've kept the Media Capture Task Force deliverables jointly developed 
with the WebRTC Working Group in the charter; it might be useful to 
reconfirm this is aligned with the group's intent

You can see the diff between our current charter and this new proposed 
one at:
http://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2011%2F07%2FDeviceAPICharter&doc2=http%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fdap-charter%2FDeviceAPICharter.html

The atomic list of change0s I made is also visible in the commit lists 
of the repo:
https://github.com/w3c/dap-charter/commits/gh-pages

I'm proposing we discuss this proposed charter on our next call 
(Thursday Oct 15), and start a 2 weeks call-for-consensus on it before 
getting into the formal Advisory Committee review.

Feedback and questions welcome!

Dom

Received on Wednesday, 14 October 2015 13:47:35 UTC