Re: Agenda: Process Document TF Telcon on Monday, 13 June, 2016

On 6/9/2016 12:05 PM, Stephen Zilles wrote:
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> The call is on Monday, 13 June, 2016 at 15:00-16:00 UTC 
> <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+Process+Document+Task+Force+Meeting&iso=20160411T08&p1=224&ah=1>
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Regrets.

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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/internal-w3process/2016Jun/0000.html 
>  (member only accessible)
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> For residents of other (typical) time zones the start times were:
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> Pacific:  8:00
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> Eastern US: 11:00
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> Central Europe: 17:00
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> Japan: 24:00
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> The purpose of these meetings has been to agree on the resolution of 
> open issues, close them where possible or assign actions to move 
> toward closure.
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> Agenda:
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> 1.A new method to vote for AB and TAG Members
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2016_Priorities#Voting
> https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/wiki/Voting2016
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> 2.A consideration of whether to include a notion of an Obsolete spec 
> (not to be confused with a rescinded spec)
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> https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2016_Priorities#Maintenance
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2016May/0056.html
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> 3.Cleaning up the handling of the Appeals Process in the existing 
> Process Document
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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2015Jul/0027.html
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> Note that item 11 in this message should also be labelled with Issue 
> 167 and that these changes address some of the issues that were raised 
> in the e-mail discussion of item 2 above.
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Since I cannot attend Monday, I will repeat what I have said in the past.

I appreciate the intellectual thought that is driving use cases that 
leads to these proposals.

However, many of these use cases have never happened in practice. And 
adding process text for cases that never happen is an anti-pattern for 
our goal of streamlining the process.

> 4.The existing CG discussion about Member organizations.
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> https://www.w3.org/2016/02/15-w3process-minutes.html
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2016May/0003.html
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> 5.Supergroups
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2016_Priorities#Supergroups
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> 6.Any other topics
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> Steve Zilles
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> Chair, W3C Process Document Task Force
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