[cabfpub] Voting ENDS Monday Ballot FORUM-10: Re-charter Forum Infrastructure Working Group

Sun Oct 6 17:03:09 UTC 2019

Reminder: Voting ends Monday 7-October 2019 at 21:00 UTC for Ballot 
FORUM-10: Re-charter Forum Infrastructure Working Group

On 2019-09-30 6:27 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Public wrote:
>
> The following ballot is proposed by Jos Purvis of Cisco, endorsed by 
> Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and Ben Wilson of DigiCert. Voting begins at 
> *2100 UTC 30 September 2019* and runs through *2100 UTC 7 October 2019*.
>
> */Ballot Forum-10: Re-charter Forum Infrastructure Work/*
>
> *Overview*
>
> The Forum Infrastructure Working Group (FIWG) was chartered during a 
> period when the CABF Bylaws did not permit for the creation of 
> subcommittees at the Forum level (only under a particular Working 
> Group). Since the work the FIWG needed to undertake was pressing and 
> covered the needs of the Forum as a whole, it was chartered as a 
> Working Group to permit this work to begin under the existing Bylaws.
>
> With the completion of the recent Bylaws changes, subcommittees may 
> now be constructed at the Forum level. In addition, the recent changes 
> to Bylaws and membership have identified a hole by which membership in 
> the FIWG could be used to “back-door” membership in the Forum as a 
> whole, an unintended consequence worth squashing.
>
> This ballot, therefore, lays down the existing FIWG and immediately 
> re-charters a Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee to continue its work.
>
> **
>
> *Gory Details*
>
> 24 hours after this ballot passes the following will occur:
>
> 1.The existing Forum Infrastructure Working Group will be dissolved 
> per the Bylaws section 5.3.2 item 3.
>
> 2.A new Infrastructure Subcommittee will be chartered under the CA/B 
> Forum, per the Bylaws section 5.6, with the Charter of that 
> Subcommittee as described below.
>
> 3.The existing mailing list for the FIWG will be repurposed for the 
> use of the Subcommittee, following an announcement to that end on the 
> existing FIWG mailer.
>
> 4.The existing wiki pages from the FIWG will be archived, and a new 
> space created for the Subcommittee's use under the main Forum namespace.
>
> **
>
> *Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee (FIS) Charter*
>
> *Scope* - The authorized scope of the Forum Infrastructure 
> Subcommittee shall be as follows:
>
> ·To oversee the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of the common 
> CA/Browser Forum website and wiki resources;
>
> ·To coordinate updates to public and Forum-facing web and wiki content 
> in support of the Forum Webmaster role established in the Bylaws;
>
> ·To create and manage the division of access and content spaces 
> required to help ensure the separation of the work of various Working 
> Groups and accompanying IP commitments, as described in the Forum’s 
> IPR Policy;
>
> ·To manage the technical means of production of guidelines and other 
> documents produced by the Forum's subcommittees;
>
> ·To manage the Forum-level email lists and to offer management of 
> working-group and subcommittee mailing lists as needed in support of 
> the Forum List Manager role established in the Bylaws;
>
> ·To perform other activities ancillary to the primary activities 
> listed above.
>
> *End Date* - This Subcommittee shall continue until it is dissolved by 
> a vote of the CA/B Forum.
>
> *Deliverables* - The Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee shall be 
> responsible for delivering wiki and mailing list services to the Forum 
> on an ongoing basis, and supplying access to these and to the 
> management tools for these as is appropriate and required by the 
> Forum. The subcommittee shall not propose any changes to the Bylaws or 
> IPR agreements itself: where issues with these are identified, they 
> may be redirected to the Forum as a whole or to appropriate 
> subcommittees or working groups for further consideration.
>
> *Participation* - Any member of the CAB Forum is eligible and may 
> declare their participation in the Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee 
> by requesting to be added to the mailing list.
>
> *Chair* - Jos Purvis shall be the initial Chair of the Forum 
> Infrastructure Subcommittee. The Chair shall not have a fixed term, 
> but the Subcommittee may change its Chair from time to time by 
> consensus of the Members participating in the Subcommittee or by 
> voting method chosen by the Members by consensus.
>
> *Communication* - Subcommittee communications and documents shall be 
> posted on mailing-lists where the mail-archives are publicly 
> accessible, and the Subcommittee shall publish minutes of its meetings 
> to the Forum wiki.
>
> *Effect of Forum Bylaws Amendment for Subcommittees* - In the event 
> the Forum Bylaws are amended to add or modify general rules governing 
> Forum Subcommittees and how they operate (“General Rules”), the 
> provisions of the General Rules shall take precedence over this charter.
>
> *Key Dates*
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> /Ballot Discussion Begins/
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> 20 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC
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> /Ballot Discussion Concludes/
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> 27 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC
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> /Ballot Vote Begins/
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> 30 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC
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> /Ballot Vote Ends/
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> 7 Oct 2019 21:00 UTC
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> -- 
> Jos Purvis (jopurvis at cisco.com <mailto:jopurvis at cisco.com>)
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