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

I support the resolution for moderated public subscribing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net] 
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:38 AM
To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Subject: 48-hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Set up moderated public
subscription to ARIA working list,

Colleagues:

The following CfC is being copied to the PFWG because not all of us who
participate in ARIA work are yet joined to the new ARIA Working Group, and
consequently not all of us are subscribed to the new ARIA list.

If you are unable to respond to this CfC on the ARIA list, please do so
here, on the PF list.

Janina

Richard Schwerdtfeger writes:

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



Rich Schwerdtfeger

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