Re: IG charter: status and schedule

I fully agree with Charles point.

When it comes to the charter, from my side I don't have any additional  
comment.
When it comes to do some preliminary work, we should try to start from the  
outcome of the workshop and identify the main discussion areas (of course  
more can be added).
Maybe we could have a telco in a week or 2 to discuss how we want to  
proceed.

cheers,
/g


On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:02:00 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile  
<chaals@opera.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:01:13 -0400, FUNAHASHI Yosuke  
> <yfuna@tomo-digi.co.jp> wrote:
>
>> Actually, I would like to speed-up the process as well.:)
>>
>> The most time-consuming process will be `Review by AC Rep.'.
>
> Well, that depends on how fast we do our own review of the charter - if  
> we take 5 weeks we might be the slowest step ourselves.
>
>> I've heard from Kaz that, theoretically, it can take infinite time
>> if any of AC Reps continue to reject the charter.  So we gave
>> the process a month as our target of effort.
>>
>> I would like to ask Kaz about the minimum duration of the process
>> the W3C process document requires.  I think it would be the best
>> case we can expect.
>
> I think that it can be done in 4 weeks - and could be done alongside the  
> review by this group to speed up the process. If the proposed charter is  
> submitted next week it can still be modified as a result of comments  
> either by the AC or by this group.
>
> In any case the IG is designed to be fairly uncontroversial - it  
> deliberately defers complex technical and design discussions, along with  
> taking decisions where there isn't clear consensus, to a relevant  
> working group. The IG is more of a place for collecting and recording  
> the range of requirements and issues, to make sure that working groups  
> aren't missing important information.
>
>> As for the first half of my draft schedule, I think we had better  
>> discuss
>> several topics about the organization of the IG in this period.
> ...
>>   * the IG should be public or W3C members only?
>>
>> I remember that, in the workshop, someone said that "Interest Group
>> could be public" but the other person said that "Interest Group also
>> requires W3C membership to participate in it".
>
> An interest group can be open to anyone - and indeed the charter  
> proposal allows anyone to join the interest group. But any work to be  
> done would happen in a working group (either new or existing). This way  
> we can get the widest possible participation in devloping and explaining  
> requirements, and technical work is done in the context of W3C's patent  
> policy, working with experts in Web technology as well as TV industry.
>
> Where appropriate, I think it is more effective to do work in an  
> existing working group. E.g. rather than having a seperate group to  
> define TV-oriented device APIs, it makes sense to take advantage of the  
> expertise on defining device APIs for the Web that is in the DAP group.  
> Naturally the group can also recommend the creation of a new working  
> group for items that haven't so far been in the scope of W3C work.
>
> There is a separate question about whether the work should take place in  
> publi, or in a member-only group. For the Interest Group I think it is  
> much more effective for discussions to be in public. In any case, this  
> is important to make technical work more efficient.
>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>> In any case I think we can start with some preliminary work even  
>>> before the charter is finalized so that we are able to start  
>>> immediately as the charter is ready.
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> Yes.  I agree with you.
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>


-- 
Giuseppe Pascale
Linux Devices SDK
Opera Software - Sweden

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