Call for Consensus (CfC) to Approve revised DAP Charter and group name change - deadline 29 October 2015

This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) for the Device APIs working group to approve a new charter and to also approve changing the name of the group. Assuming the WG approves these changes there will then be an Advisory Committee Review [1].

The Draft charter to be approved is at https://github.com/w3c/dap-charter ; the message below (and at [2])  details significant changes to be considered.

The redline showing changes is useful: 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 name change of the group was agreed on today's teleconference, with the proposed new name "Device and Sensors Working Group (DAS)" [3]. The rationale for the change is that this name better reflects the current work of the group.

Please reply to this message by 29 October (2 weeks) either indicating support for the charter and group name change, or noting any concerns. Even support with a "+1" indicating support for both will be helpful. Silence will be assumed to be agreement.

Thanks
 
regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Chair, W3C Device APIs WG (DAP)

www.fjhirsch.com
@fjhirsch

[1] http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#CharterReview

[2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2015Oct/0022.html

[3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2015Oct/att-0037/minutes-2015-10-15.html#item03



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
> Subject: Finalizing DAP new charter
> Date: October 14, 2015 at 9:47:28 AM EDT
> To: W3C Device APIs WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
> Resent-From: public-device-apis@w3.org
> 
> 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 Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:26:57 UTC