[Bug 16677] New: Consider requiring seconds for Change Proposals

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16677

           Summary: Consider requiring seconds for Change Proposals
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: working group Decision Policy
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: mjs@apple.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mjs@apple.com, Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com,
                    rubys@intertwingly.net, mike@w3.org


Consider requiring one or more independent seconds for Change Proposals. Our
Process allows a single person who feels strongly to override a large majority
who are weakly opposed; only the person who feels strongly will feel motivated
to write a Change Proposal and thus will win by default.

The W3C Process defines consensus as: "Consensus: A substantial number of
individuals in the set support the decision and nobody in the set registers a
Formal Objection. Individuals in the set may abstain. Abstention is either an
explicit expression of no opinion or silence by an individual in the set.
Unanimity is the particular case of consensus where all individuals in the set
support the decision (i.e., no individual in the set abstains)."

We are effectively not enforcing the first part, "a substantial number of
individuals in the set support the decision". If only one or two people support
a change, that is not "a substantial number" relative to the size of the full
WG.

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Received on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:22:36 UTC