Re: DRAFT agenda for the next Process Call, September 12th 7am PDT (note time)

Hi Jeff and all,

Just a reminder that the “Evergreen Standards” model would require an addendum to the Patent Policy in addition to any provisions added to the Process Document.  PSIG participants have indicated that they want to be involved in any change/addition to the Patent Policy, so they would need to be part of this process as well.  Any “dedicated task force” would need to include PSIG, who are the folks who are the most knowledgeable and experienced when it comes to standards IP issues.

I’ve copied Don and Helene for coordination with PSIG.  Thanks.

Best regards,

Virginia Fournier
Senior Standards Counsel
 Apple Inc.
☏ 669-227-9595
✉︎ vmf@apple.com <mailto:vmf@apple.com>



On Sep 12, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org> wrote:



On 9/10/2018 5:50 PM, David Singer wrote:
> Webex at <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/internal-w3process/2018Sep/0000.html>
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> IRC is #w3process
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> Log of prior meeting at <https://www.w3.org/2018/08/15-w3process-minutes.html>
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> Usual meeting time: SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH AT 7AM
> Yes, this is one week delayed.
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> 1) Assign scribe, etc.,
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> 2) Review of Pull Requests that are pending, concentrating on those that address Process2019Candidate issues. ****We would like this to be the meat of the call.****
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> <https://github.com/w3c/w3process/pulls>
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> 3) Review Process2019 Priorities, focusing on those that don’t have associated pull requests, but do have assignees (and asking why not):
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> Special focus on issues that HAVE a tentative conclusion in the discussion, converting that into an agreement for the editor to Pull Request.
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> No unassigned Process2019Candidate issues.
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> 4) If we have time, new issues and updates.
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> 3.1) new since August call: <https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E2018-08-14+>
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> 3.2) updated but not Process2019Candidate <https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+updated%3A%3E2018-08-14+-label%3AProcess2019Candidate>
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> 5) Next meeting. Theoretically Oct 10th.  I would like to back up one week as (a) we need to decide if we’re presenting this new process to the AC for ballot and we need to have time to prep and (b) I will be in Macau at an mpeg meeting.

My input is that we are not yet ready to take this to the AC.  Here are my reasons:

1. We still have 11 items that identified as Process 2019 Candidates which are still open [1].  Given that we identified these as most important at the beginning of the exercise, there is too much open to call ourselves done.

2. I could forgive ourselves for [1] if we had some really important way to improve standards making in Process 2019.  But I don't think we are there yet.  My favorite one, btw is Living or Evergreen Standards [2].  If we could make progress on that - it alone would justify a process Rev.

3. The lack of a solution for Evergreen Standards is particularly painful.  First, it was opened over a year ago.  So we have had plenty of time to think about it.  Plus, there is an enormous amount of work that David and others have done on it [3].  Looking at a year of tremendous work - but no final proposal has me concerned.  I am concerned that we are prioritizing some easy successes - but never getting to something transformational.  My preference would be to appoint a dedicated task force to get Evergreen Standards done in a short period of time, and then declare ourselves done for Process 2019.

4. Even if we decided that we are "good to go" with Process 2019 on October 3rd, there is a lot to do before proposing to the AC.  We would need AB approval; we should get W3M input; we should send it to the AC at least two weeks in advance of the meeting if we want a robust discussion.  The AB's attention is likely to be diverted to the Legal Entity and WHATWG topics adding to the time pressure.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+assignee%3A*+label%3AProcess2019Candidate <https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+assignee%3A*+label%3AProcess2019Candidate>

[2] https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues/79 <https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues/79>

[3] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Evergreen_Standards <https://www.w3.org/wiki/Evergreen_Standards>

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> 6) Any other business.