Michael Champion

The licensing commitment is another anachronistic feature of Member Submissions ... . > must indicate whether or not each entity (Submitters and other licensors) will offer a license according to...

> But it could still be convenient for the company that made it to share the documentation for that format, along with information of what patent regime it is under....

Does the concept of a "member submission" still belong in the Process, considering the evolution of the patent policy, the near-universal use of "forkable" copyright licenses in web standards, and...

Well sure, if you expose a lever, people will yank on it. Are they doing anything with that lever they couldn't do if it were removed? Is repairing the mechanism...

Again, what input are you getting via the submission process you couldn't get from normal participation in WGs, IGs or CGs? I know from personal experience the Member Submission process...

I proposed resolving the issue of how to appeal member submission decisions by removing member submissions🤷 If I have an issue with my appendix or gall bladder, my doctors won’t...

Create a Community Group; have the CG publish the spec with an open copyright license and patent commitments from the contributors; build a community of users who have problems the...

I don't see why not, but I haven't thought about this for a while. If someone writes a spec, joins a WG for which it is in scope thus making...

Over the 20 years or so I've been paying attention to AB and TAG elections, it's been pretty clear there IS an incumbent bias. I've argued for term limits in...

One might argue that it would be better to have a AB selected from people who are active in working/interest groups than one selected from the people most widely visible...