David Singer
David Singer
my apologies for the casual use of a new term, shepherd. contact is fine. investigator is also fine
If we want to avoid a late FO, we can announce the intention/plan/hope to organize a workshop, and say explicitly: this is your chance to course-correct. If it's approved here,...
@swickr ah, got it. Somehow we need to find a better middle ground between "acknowledgement" (usually used to mean 'yes, we received this', without the 'and we agree to publish...
"Confirmation of submission" and "recognition" both seem to suggest only "yes, we got it". Somehow we need to be able to say "yes, we got it, _and_ OK, we'll publish...
I would not _like_ to see FO used, but as I read it, anyone can FO any decision, and an appointment is surely a decision. Why do you think FO...
Perhaps it's that a person can indicate that they object, and would likely FO if the decision were made?
yes "I object strongly, and if this proposal were adopted as a Decision, I would likely raise a Formal Objection." is the sense we are looking for.
A CfC happens after a preliminary determination of consensus but the population sampled is not all the group (e.g. in a call, at a F2F meeting, or the chair's perception...
Note that some sort of disclosure/publication process for specs that are relevant in the space is not completely unheard of. SMPTE has Registered Document Disclosure, for example; IETF has individual-track...
Unfortunately the C in W3C stands for Consortium. I fear we're going to have to say that the Consortium is formally constituted as a Member Association, somewhere, as we don't...