Re: 72 hour call for consensus ­ election of new PBG Steering Committee slate

A very clear -1 for me:

  - the chairs of the CG would be members of the SC that, per Charter,
    "is empowered to take any action on behalf of the BG" that itself
    decides which specs and drafts are allowed in the CG. With such an
    organization, chairs _could_ become leaders, and W3C has always,
    in its whole history, carefully avoided that possibility, *even*
    hypothetical. We. Just. Don't. Do. That. Ever.

  - not a single W3C (and I mean the prior-to-merger W3C) Staff

  - the charter says "each class shall be elected to two-year terms";
    you're proposing 1 year, and that's against the Charter.

  - this is not an election, there should have been consensus to amend
    the BG Charter's prose about the SC first. That's easy and doable
    in very little time. The current SC can even decide it!!!

  - since the seats are "to be considered resigned if (..) chair/lead
    responsibilities change", it feels and smells much more like a
    liaison committee. This is clearly not the spirit of the Charter
    that imposes no such constraint. And the liaison committee already
    exists, it's the BG; not its SC.
    Please note all these Chairs are already supposed to liaise, per the
    three Charters.

  - you said "Strategic decisions will be taken in the PBG as a whole,
    not by the SC". Wait. Does it mean the Charter provision that reads
    "is empowered to take any action on behalf of the BG" is dropped?
    If yes, then the Charter MUST be amended and you CANNOT run this
    so-called election. If no, please clarify the decisions the SC can
    still make on behalf of the BG and the charter SHOULD be amended.

Even if I see the good will behind the proposal, it feels far too much
like a hacky workaround. The BG has a Charter, like it or not, and the
proposal just ignores it too deeply, again.

Conclusion:

  1. this "election" is not compliant to the Charter, even if decided
     by consensus. It seems to me the aforementioned consensus has
     decided parts of the Charter are not practical any more, so...

  2. ...amend the Charter and kill the SC

  3. add to the Charter that all the Chairs of the CG and WG are "de
     facto" members of the BG during their chairmanships (run this
     through AC-Reps because of Patent policy but I suspect it won't be
     a problem) and make BG, task forces, WG and CG chairs formally
     liaise inside the BG.

  4. remove the provision that gives the BG the right to decide what the
     CG publishes or not

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Received on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 11:44:52 UTC