Re: webid serializations consensus 2023

> I would like to get to webid 1.0, but we need to be realistic. In several years we have been able to get that over the line, despite stop and start approaches.

I agree, which is why I believe that unless someone is willing to shoulder the effort to push, mediate and rally, it would be better to simply hand things off to the Solid WG and accept that the outcomes might - and likely will - not align with the consensus of this group, however big or small that might be at the moment.

> It might make sense for Jacopo as Editor to be the spokesperson for the group during the handover, and reflecting the current consensus across the many discussions.  I have fairly high trust that consensus would be well represented.


> Please, Jacobo, handle the handover.

Melvin and Jonas, _thank you_ for your trust. I am deeply honored by it. However, not only I am wholly unfamiliar with the handover process but I am not quite sure whether I would want for a spokesperson to be there at all. If another group is to take on WebID, I would hope for it to do its due diligence and spend some time reading through the major conversations that have taken place over the years. That’s how I would do it, at least, particularly if I were to oversee the handover of a spec that has struggled to move forward for so long.

Furthermore, I see little point in representing the consensus of this group in a transition that is almost guaranteed to go against such consensus (again, however big or small it might be at the moment). Which, I should note, is in no way an inherently bad or good thing. It could very well be that the level of consensus required for WebID 1.0 is simply impossible to achieve within this group due to conflicting ideas, visions and experiences all held in good faith, making an entirely different approach and sets of compromises the only way forward.

Having a spokesperson for the group would feel to me like having a team leader who’s doing his very best to learn how to delegate but isn’t quite succeeding at doing so, ending up as the annoying set of eyes over everybody’s shoulders. 

All this said, I know little of what I’m talking about given my relatively recent involvement in these matters and in the processes of W3C’s CGs and WGs. I’d be happy to change my mind should there be more value to a spokesperson than what I see at the moment.

Received on Friday, 16 June 2023 08:04:07 UTC