Re: CFC: a policy for calls for consensus on SWICG group decisions

pá 29. 9. 2023 v 2:02 odesílatel Benjamin Goering <ben@bengo.co> napsal:

> SWIP-37f2: a policy for calls for consensus on SWICG group decisions
> Introduction
>
> The Social Web Incubation Community Group is missing an explicit
> decision-making policy, which essentially all other W3C community groups
> have to ensure asynchronous and healthy consensus mechanisms across
> timezones and participatory modes.
> Proposal
>
> W3C SWICG
> <https://socialweb.coop/SWIP/37f2/a-policy-for-calls-for-consensus-on-swicg-group-decisions/SWICG> will
> seek to make decisions through consensus and due process, per the W3C
> Process Document, §5.2.1 Consensus
> <https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#Consensus>.
>
> To afford asynchronous decisions and organizational deliberation, any
> resolution (including publication decisions) taken in a face-to-face
> meeting or teleconference will be considered provisional.
>
> A call for consensus (CFC) will be issued for all resolutions via email to
> public-swicg@w3.org (archives
> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/>). The presence of
> formal resolutions will be indicated by a "CFC" prefix in the subject line
> of the email. Additional outreach to community venues for more affirmative
> consent is strongly encouraged. There will be a response period of 14 days.
> If no sustained objections are raised by the end of the response period,
> the resolution will be considered to have consensus as a resolution of the
> Community Group, i.e. a group decision.
>
> All decisions made by the group should be considered resolved unless and
> until new information becomes available or unless reopened at the
> discretion of the Chairs or the Director.
>
> This policy is an operational agreement per the W3C Community and
> Business Group Process <https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/>.
> ContextW3C Groups with Similar Decision Policies
>
> These community groups and working groups have similar decision policies
> with tentative meeting resolutions and confirmation of calls for consensus
> via email:
>
>    - WebAssembly Community Group Charter
>    <https://webassembly.github.io/cg-charter/#decision>
>    - Credentials Community Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/charter/> (see section
>    "Transparency")
>    - Web Extensions Community Group Charter
>    <https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md#decision-process>
>    - Web of Things Interest Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2021/12/wot-ig-2021.html#decisions>
>    - HTML Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2022/06/html-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Web Platform Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2017/08/webplatform-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Web Applications Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2022/04/webapps-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Media Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2023/06/media-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Web Performance Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2021/02/webperf.html#decisions>
>    - Service Workers Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2023/01/sw-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Verifiable Credentials Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2022/06/verifiable-credentials-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - JSON-LD Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2018/03/jsonld-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - WebAssembly Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2020/03/webassembly-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Web Authentication Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2022/04/webauthn-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Immersive Web Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2022/07/immersive-web-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Web Payments Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2017/08/webplatform-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Devices and Sensors Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2022/11/das-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Distributed Tracing Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2023/05/distributed-tracing-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Web Editing Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2023/09/webediting-charter-2023.html#decisions>
>    - Internationalization Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/International/groups/wg/charter.html#decisions>
>    - Publishing Maintenance Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2023/06/pmwg-charter.html#decisions>
>    - Solid Community Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/> (see section "Decision
>    Policy")
>    - Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter
>    <https://www.w3.org/2020/12/did-wg-charter.html#decisions>
>
> Proposal processes on SWICG Forum with identical response period:
>
>    - FEP-a4ed: The Fediverse Enhancement Proposal Process
>    <https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-a4ed-the-fediverse-enhancement-proposal-process/1171/1>
>
> W3C Community Group Process
>
> W3C SWICG <https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/> is a W3C Community
> Group (CG).
>
> CGs are described in their process document
> <https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/> as follows (excerpted for
> concision):
>
> This document defines W3C Community Groups, where anyone may develop
> Specifications, hold discussions, develop tests, and so on, with no
> participation fee. …
>
> Community Groups that develop specifications do so under policies designed
> to strike a balance between ease of participation and safety for
> implementers and patent holders …
>
> A Community Group may adopt operational agreements… that establish the
> group’s scope of work, decision-making processes, communications
> preferences, and other operations. …
>
> The following rules govern Community Group operational agreements:
>
>    - They must be publicly documented.
>    - They must be fair and must not unreasonably favor or discriminate
>    against any group participant or their employer.
>    - They must not conflict with or modify this Community and Business
>    Group Process, the Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
>    <https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/cla/>, or the Final
>    Specification Agreement
>    <https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/final/>. …
>
> the Chair determines the means by which the group adopts and modifies
> operational agreements. The Chair must give actual notice to the
> participants of any material changes to the agreements. Participants may
> resign from the group if they do not wish to participate under the new
> agreements. …
>
> *Note*: W3C encourages groups adopt decision-making policies that promote
> consensus. …
>
> Each Community Group must have at least one Chair who is responsible for
> ensuring the group fulfills the requirements of this document as well as
> the group’s operational agreements.
>
> Related Reading
>
>    - IETF RFC7282 On Consensus and Humming in the IETF
>    <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282>
>    - Doty, Nick, and Deirdre K. Mulligan. 2013. "Internet
>    Multistakeholder Processes and Techno-Policy Standards: Initial Reflections
>    on Privacy at the World Wide Web Consortium"
>    <http://www.jthtl.org/content/articles/V11I1/JTHTLv11i1_MulliganDoty.PDF> Journal
>    on Telecommunications and High Technology Law 11.
>    - Harmonization (standards), en.wikipedia.org
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonization_(standards)>
>
> Editorial Notes
>
> The title of this proposal was generated in line with norms established by Content
> addressed vocabulary for extensions
> <https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/content-addressed-vocabulary-for-extensions/539/1>
> and FEP-a4ed: The Fediverse Enhancement Proposal Process
> <https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-a4ed-the-fediverse-enhancement-proposal-process/1171#proposal-title-and-identifier-5>
> .
>
> ⚡ P='a policy for calls for consensus on SWICG group decisions'
> ⚡ echo "SWIP-$(echo -n "$P" | sha256sum | cut -c-4): $P"
> SWIP-37f2: a policy for calls for consensus on group decisions
>
> The 'SW' in 'SWIP' stands for 'Social Web'.
>
> This proposal was initially published at:
>
>    -
>    https://socialweb.coop/SWIP/37f2/a-policy-for-calls-for-consensus-on-swicg-group-decisions/
>
> Copyright
>
> CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
>
> To the extent possible under law, the authors of this Proposal have waived
> all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
>

+1 Agree with the general idea. My concern is the potential for a chair to
still initiate votes, which could dominate the process.