Re: [chairs] initial review of OASIS TC Process changes

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>]

Karl,

I believe it's unfortunate you actually worked on both issues at the same time.
It would have been better if you first got buy in on the requirements or
motivations for changes, and *then* you proceeded to affect the changes in
the process document, based on what other people thought. This occurred to
me while I was trying to make sense of the changes in the PDF file as I
skimmed it. Once it occurred to me, I couldn't get it out of my mind, so in
fact what I did was to read and comment *only* on the .doc file.

I am afraid you will think I'm a nay sayer, because there appear to be a lot
of things that I don't agree with in that document. Please remember I have
been looking at it as an explanation of your motivation for making changes
to the Process document; and if I can't agree with your motivation I can't
agree with the changes either. Also, I'm not sure if the following is
clear in the dialog I engage with you in the document: in some cases I
don't totally disagree, but I find that the thought behind the expressed
need for change is not thought out enough; it's too raw, as it were, and I
don't like my steaks to walk to my table... ;)

Because your document is in a format for which there is no native editing
tool in the environment I work in, I have imported it into OpenOffice to work
on. I am including my response in an OpenOffice document. And because I
know there may be people who will not use OpenOffice as a matter of principle,
I am also including the result of exporting OpenOffice to that format.

My responses in OO are in red and Arial. I have no idea how they come through
in the other format...

BTW, I'm also cc'ing the Board on my response, since they are meeting tomorrow
and this is on the Agenda.

Karl F. Best wrote:
> Chairs, TAB:
> 
> For the past several months I've been accumulating suggestions for 
> changes to the OASIS TC Process and so, as seems to be the case every 
> year about this time, it's time to revise the document again.
> 
> Many of these changes are improvements to the Process based on my 
> experience administering the Process and your experience using the Process.
> 
> In addition, there are a number of changes that are required in order to 
> implement a newly revised OASIS IPR Policy which is being developed by a 
> subcommmittee of the OASIS Board. (I'll be sending this out for your 
> comment soon.) In the past these two documents have been quite separate, 
> but as the subcommittee has been working on the IPR Policy we've 
> realized that there are quite a number of things that are "IPR process" 
> rather than simply "IPR policy", and rather than having two "process" 
> documents we've decided that these should be added to the TC Process.
> 
> Attached are two documents. The first is a summary of the changes with 
> justfication, and the second is a marked-up copy of the existing Process 
> document with changes highlighted. This is just the first round of 
> review, but my intent is to have these completed and approved in the 
> next couple of months. Please send me comments on this first draft of 
> the TC Process revision by the end of this week.
> 
> thanks
> -Karl
> 
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