RE: Request for Decision: Design Principles

Thanks Murray (and Chris) for your responses.
 
It sounds like the precedent I was asking about exists. That satisfies me.
 
David

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From: Murray Maloney [mailto:murray@muzmo.com]
Sent: Fri 4/20/2007 2:45 PM
To: Dailey, David P.
Cc: murray@muzmo.com; karl@w3.org; www-archive@w3.org; connolly@w3.org; Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com; mjs@apple.com
Subject: Re: Request for Decision: Design Principles



At 02:22 PM 4/20/2007 -0400, David Dailey wrote:


>This made me wonder something:
>
>Maciej has written
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0911.html
>concerning the proposed principles that
>
> >You can think of them as self-imposed amendments to the charter, so
> >that we don't have to pick through the often vague language of the
> >charter for justification. Since they are self-imposed, they are also
> >less difficult to add or remove in response to feedback. All it takes
> >is a decision of the group, not the full re-chartering process which
> >is slow and disruptive.
>
>Has a W3C group ever modified its own charter in this way? If so was it
>done by majority rule?

I am not sure Maciej was being literal or not, but I did not interpret his
suggestion
as being an actual amendment to the charter as much as a virtual amendment.
The XML Schema WG adopted a set of design principles as did the XML WG.

>If there is a minority which opposes such a modification of a charter,
>then it would seem that consensus has not been achieved and that an
>official rechartering might be required. Maybe not. I suspect Karl may
>know of precedents.

Re-chartering is a rat hole that I don't want to go anywhere near. It is
almost a miracle
that we have this WG at all. Let's try hard to keep it together and not
seek any more
ways to tear it apart.

>Or perhaps in some meta WG that oversees the specifications of charters,
>there may be language that covers exactly this situation and that a
>majority may, as it wishes, change things in this way. In the US, I think
>one needs a 2/3 majority to change the constitution, plus some sort of
>state-by-state referendum.

Regards,

Murray

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