Call for Consensus to modify the proposed TTWG Charter to resolve Apple's FO

All,

I have opened an issue w3c/charter-timed-text#85<https://github.com/w3c/charter-timed-text/issues/85> to explain why I am making a proposal at this stage to change the wording in the proposed TTWG charter to change the second factor of verification in the success criteria from “Content implementation” to “Content-producing implementation”.

It’s my understanding from conversations this week that this will resolve Apple’s formal objection and therefore reduce the number of objections against which the W3C Council reviewing the TTWG Charter’s Formal Objections (chaired by Florian) will have to make a determination.

Previously I think the TTWG had not accepted this proposal because we believed it would effectively rule out a significant set of options that would be useful and valid especially to allow IMSC-HRM to exit CR. I encourage you to look at the issue to understand why I think we can revisit that now.

As a formal call for consensus according to the TTWG’s mode of operation, I have opened a pull request, w3c/charter-timed-text#86<https://github.com/w3c/charter-timed-text/pull/86> to implement that proposed change.

Please review the issue and the pull request and if you agree to the proposal, add an “approval” review to the pull request. Conversely, if you disagree, please add a “request changes” review explaining your viewpoint.

I would like, if possible, to expedite this pull request and merge it more quickly than our normal decision review policy period of 10 working days, ideally during our regular call on 2023-03-16. If you need more time to review than that, please let me know, and ideally indicate that on the pull request.

I propose to end the call for consensus either when we have “approvals” from the regular group participants and no “request changes”, or if we have at least one approval and no request changes at the end of the 10 working day decision review period (2023-03-22).

Nigel