[cabfpub] Attendance of Interested Parties at Working Group meetings

[Kirk Hall]

I previously agreed with Wayne that an all-day VWG meeting in Herndon, VA on Tuesday, March 6 is a good idea - but we will have to push other WG meetings to later, maybe Wednesday morning.  Does anyone object to this plan?

On the question of attendance (in person or by phone) by Interested Parties at the special VWG meeting - I have pasted in the relevant part of Bylaw 3.2 below.  If you had asked me what I thought it meant, I would have said "IPs can only come to the full Forum meetings at the invitation of the Chair, but they can come to Working Group meetings (teleconferences and face-to-face meetings) without an invitation from the Chair - it's at their option."

That's what I thought sub (a) meant by "becoming involved" in Working Groups, whereas I believed sub (c) only applies to participation in "Forum Teleconferences and Forum Meetings" - which I thought meant the meetings of the full Forum itself.  As I recall, we didn't want the full Forum meetings to grow to 100 people or more, perhaps with many more Interested Parties in attendance than CAs and browsers - that seemed unmanageable from a logistics standpoint.  Hence the need for a little gatekeeping and specific invitations.

Here is the language from the Bylaws:

Interested Parties may participate in Forum activities in the following ways:

(a) By becoming involved in Working Groups,

(b) By posting to the Public Mail List, and

(c) By participating in those portions of Forum Teleconferences and Forum Meetings to
which they are invited by the Forum Chair relating to their areas of special expertise or
the subject of their Working Group participation.

In any case, I will happily "invite" any Interested Party who wants to be involved in the VWG meeting on March 6, if necessary.

Or would it be better if we permanently adopt my interpretation above - that no invitation from the Chair is needed for Interested Parties to attend WG meetings at their own option?
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