[cabfpub] FW: Ballot FORUM-10: Re-charter Forum Infrastructure Working Group

[Wojciech Trapczyński]

Certum votes Yes to ballot FORUM-10.

-Wojciech Trapczyński

On 30.09.2019 17:27, 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*
> 
> /Ballot Discussion Begins/
> 
> 	
> 
> 20 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC
> 
> /Ballot Discussion Concludes/
> 
> 	
> 
> 27 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC
> 
> /Ballot Vote Begins/
> 
> 	
> 
> 30 Sept 2019 21:00 UTC
> 
> /Ballot Vote Ends/
> 
> 	
> 
> 7 Oct 2019 21:00 UTC
> 
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