2018-08-10 Meeting

Nicholas Kolba met with Aaron Williamson and Rob Underwood (Deactivated) re: governance.  Here were the minutes from that meeting: 

• Minutes Embargo

• 2 days
• Only available to WG members (Confluence group) then made public
• Automatic process if possible, otherwise admin access for committee/PMC leads
• ACTION: Aaron to raise INT for INFRA
• Standards Ratification
• Process not spelled out in POP
• Generic voting rules sufficient, plus ratification by PMC?
• If not, amend the POP to set out explicit voting rules for standards
• ACTION: Aaron to attend next FDC3 PMC meeting
• Role of PMC & other WGs in approval of WG-ratified standards
• Proposal:
• Notice-and-comment period
• WG decides whether to revise
• N&C for any revisions
• Ratification by WG and PMC
• ACTION:
• Aaron to review PGP & POP re: revising POP
• Aaron to draft revision to POP
• Parking lot: communications re: why we're different from a standards development organization
• FDC3 Badging
• Aaron: Ought to be a certification mark
• Prevent bad-faith/inconsistent use
• Foundation needs to own the trademark to register & enforce
• Should comply with PTO requirements for certification marks to be registered & enforceable

decide on process for ratifying standards.  

Proposed outline:

• Proposed standard raised by WG
  • by consensus
  • by majority vote if consensus can't be reached (good faith effort)
• Proposed standard presented at next general meeting
• 2 weeks comment period from community
• PMC ratification
  • by consensus
  • by majority vote if consensus can't be reached (good faith effort)