FedID CG Charter and Chair

Bootstrapping a community group is a fascinating process! I’m making a lot of administrative decisions so we can get our first call on the calendar, but I expect the community group to decide whether different decisions need to be made going forward. And with that said...

We have two administrative things that must be handled with our first call: approving the charter and selecting a chair.

At this point, the draft charter has been out for review since 24 June 2021, including a Q&A call that was held on 6 July 2021. We have a few small suggestions proposed in the Issues list, but nothing that impacts the processes by which the community group will come to decisions or select a chair. So for now, what I’d like to suggest is that we start the process to formally select a chair and finalize the charter on our first call (reminder: Doodle poll)

The chair selection process (copied directly from the W3C CG Charter Template) states:

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This community group will have three chairs.

Participants in this group choose their chair(s) and can replace their chair(s) at any time using whatever means they prefer. However, if five participants, no two from the same organisation, call for an election, the group must use the following process to replace any current chair(s) with a new chair, consulting the Community Development Lead on election operations (e.g., voting infrastructure and using RFC 2777).

• Participants announce their candidacies. Participants have 14 days to announce their candidacies, but this period ends as soon as all participants have announced their intentions. If there is only one candidate, that person becomes the chair. If there are two or more candidates, there is a vote. Otherwise, nothing changes.
• Participants vote. Participants have 21 days to vote for a single candidate, but this period ends as soon as all participants have voted. The individuals who receives the most votes, no two representing the same organisation, is elected chair. In case of a tie, RFC2777 is used to break the tie. An elected chair will appoint two co-chairs; no two chairs may represent the same organization.


Participants dissatisfied with the outcome of an election may ask the Community Development Lead to intervene. The Community Development Lead, after evaluating the election, may take any action including no action.

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I expect our first call will be right at the end of the 14 day period described, so this works out pretty well. I will be nominating myself to be chair in a separate message, but would like any and all other parties interested in facilitating the work of this community group to do the same.

If anyone has any questions, comments, or concerns, please post to the list so we can sort it out.

Heather Flanagan — Translator of Geek to Human
https://sphericalcowconsulting.com