New survey on the decision policy

Last week's survey on the decision policy had several  votes for not 
having a custom decision policy and instead simply using the W3C Process.

I suggested that AGWG keep the best of  both:

  * Use the W3C Process which is tested and improved over decades and
    works with many different working groups including groups that
    regularly work with regulatory environment and with political
    pressure.  It is flexible and allows groups to work quickly.
  * Use the work done on the custom decision policy (labels and
    procedures of placeholder, exploratory, developing, refining, and
    mature)  simply as a way to operate without locking ourselves into
    declaring it as a formal decision policy that we won't be able to
    change for two years.

There was sufficient support to explore this proposal. It was 
complicated by the fact that the W3C had updated its Process the day 
before (which I didn't know).  The Working Group agreed to resurvey this 
new proposal and give people a few days to look at the updated W3C 
Process doc.  The survey has a links to the work that the AGWG and 
chairs have done to update the custom decision policy and the updated 
W3C Process. The W3C Process is a large complex document.  We are only 
concerned with the Consensus section, which is rather brief.

There is also an option to use the W3C Process and make minor additions 
in the charter.  Those additions cannot be changed for two years once 
they are approved.

Please complete the survey before Tuesday.  It is a short deadline this 
week.  If the survey doesn't pass, then we will return to the edits from 
last week on the Custom Decision Policy.

Survey on using the W3C Process 
<https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/w3c_decision_policy/>.

Thanks,

jeanne

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2023 18:17:41 UTC