[cabfpub] Edited CA-Browser Forum Bylaws (v3)

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Fri Nov 9 02:11:25 MST 2012


On 09/11/12 01:08, kirk_hall at trendmicro.com wrote:
> 1.1. I'm not sure about the last sentence; I believe Ben proposed an
> edit to it as well. I certainly take your point that the initial
> version of the Bylaws should simply be codifying what we do already,
> but I'd suggest that "text someone wrote for the website" (which is
> where these two paras are from) is in a different category to "text
> adopted by the Forum as a ballot". So I would support you accepting
> Ben's edit in this case.  I'D LIKE TO COMPLETELY RE-WRITE IT MYSELF,
> SO IF YOU WILL FORBEAR, LET'S LEAVE IT AS IT IS (BAD AS IT MAY BE)
> AND OPEN IT UP TO A REWRITE LATER...  OTHERS MAY WANT TO RESTATE WHAT
> THE FORUM IS ALL ABOUT DURING THAT PROCESS.

I'm OK with that, as long as we are clear going in that the copying of 
the text from the website into the Bylaws does not give it added 
gravitas as "the status quo" which it did not have before.

Gerv



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