[Servercert-wg] Time to restart ballot voting?

[Jos Purvis (jopurvis)]

It sounded the last time around like the hold-up on ballots was getting them through legal review by the various members. One possibility would be to create an informal "legal review period" at the end of the discussion period that would freeze the ballot text and allow for an extended legal review by members. Since it's an informal period it wouldn't lock out changes (just discourage them), but it would allow additional time for members to have legal teams review ballots before the voting period starts in earnest.

That might look something like this:
	1. Standard discussion period of N weeks takes place, ballot language settles to something that looks "voting ready".
	2. Ballot proposer "heartbeats" an additional two-week discussion period to keep the ballot alive, but declares a "legal review period" during which members would be expected to take the ballot as it stands to their legal teams for review. This would function as a normal discussion period, so any changes brought up would require restarting at the top of the process, etc.
	3. Assuming the additional discussion period completes without any further changes, the ballot could proceed to a standard voting period without further ado.

This wouldn't involve changing any of the rules, since it would be an informal declaration, but at least it would buy the time it sounded like members were looking for to review ballot language before the fixed-length voting period starts.
 
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On 4/16/20, 11:33 AM, "Servercert-wg on behalf of Neil Dunbar via Servercert-wg" <servercert-wg-bounces at cabforum.org on behalf of servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

    All,

    I know that it's been hard for everyone during this pandemic period, but 
    I'd like to ask now: are members now in a position to take new 
    maintenance guideline ballots to their policy authorities and start 
    voting on ballots which change the BRs and other such documents?

    I'm the proposer of ballot SC29, and I'd like to get it voted on, but I 
    am sensitive to the voluntary moratorium on changes; but if there's a 
    broad consensus that we're now in a position to move forward, then I'll 
    set the voting period in motion.

    Thanks,

    Neil

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