- From: wayne carr <wayne.carr@linux.intel.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:34:49 -0700
- To: public-w3process@w3.org
- Message-ID: <eae84483-87a2-98b7-0be1-66aa6941887b@linux.intel.com>
I'll be dropping out of W3C in 3 weeks (resigning from my current job and taking time off for studying some things I'm interested in). Other than some areas we've already reached consensus on here recently (but I think not yet in a Process draft), there was one more thing I wanted to propose and get in the archive so it could be looked at in the future. The W3C Membership has no way to initiate the approval process for a Charter for a new WG unless W3C management (and the Director) decide to do it. The Membership can only request it and the W3C staff can decline. That's a significant gap if this is to be an organization controlled by its Membership. I think there is a very simple way to add it. Like all the other appeals, having them available ensures they don't ever need to be used. The simpler less formal process can be used instead and the appeals are only if something really goes wrong and somehow what the Membership wants isn't happening. Proposal: **New Section 10.5 Member Submission of a proposed Working Group Charter** ** ***** *Member Submissions have long been used to suggest new work in W3C. **Workshops, requests to the Team, and Team initiated proposals are more common paths. **In all these instances, the Director then decides whether to begin an AC Review to approve a Working Group Charter. *Those are the preferred paths for starting new work. This section provides another path for initiating an AC Review of a proposed Charter directly by the Advisory Committee. **** A Member Submission may include a proposed Working Group Charter, where the request is for the Team to submit the proposed Charter to Advisory Committee Review for starting the Working Group. Incubator specs for every proposed specification deliverable must be part of the Member Submission, along with the Charter. If the Team acknowledges a Submission, but rejects the proposal to Submit the Charter to AC Review, then the TAG, AB or 5% of the AC may cause the start of an Advisory Committee Appeal vote as in Section 7.2. That appeals vote would then decide whether to instruct the Team to prepare the Charter and put it to AC Review. The Director, for budgetary reasons, could choose to offer only minimal team support in the Charter for the proposed group. * ********
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