[cabfpub] [DRAFT] Ballot Forum-10: Recharter Forum Infrastructure Working Group

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Looks good to me.

Dimitris.

On 2019-09-05 8:20 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Public wrote:
>
> Per discussion on today’s CABF call, below is the draft ballot that 
> will re-charter the Forum Infrastructure Working Group into the Forum 
> Infrastructure Subcommittee of the CA/Browser Forum. I’m posting this 
> draft now for people to review; if there are no major changes I’ll add 
> dates and start the clock on the discussion period for it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jos
>
> *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 following the passage of this ballot:
>
>  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 may be repurposed for the
>     use of the Subcommittee. 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 production and versioning 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.
>
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