License Approval Committee

[Rob Lanphier]

I think an approach very similar to the IETF would work very well.

Specifically, check out section 3 of the "Tao of the IETF":
http://www.ietf.org/tao.html#3

...and in particular, look at section 3.2.  This group can serve as the
working group which then submits things for consideration by the OSI
board (in the "Tao" document search for "IESG" and replace with "OSI
Board")

Rob

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On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 09:19, Don Jarrell wrote:
> An interesting turn of events.  While I would probably
> not consider myself qualified to vote for a license's
> getting the mark, I offer a couple of questions to consider.
> 
> - What is the standard by which votes are interpreted 
> as "approval" ?  Absence of any objection ? That's a 
> pretty high-standard given the open constituency of the
> list.  Number of nay votes ? Number or percentage of yea
> votes ?  Kind of fuzzy.  
> 
> - If there is some metric based upon list population,
> could/should those who would recuse themselves from the
> voting - for whatever reason - be removed from that 
> population count ?
> 
> - Could list members whose bent is revealed to be
> inconsistent with the OSI/OSD be booted from the list ?
> Could they become non-voting viewers ?
> 
> - Is there a secondary review by the Board (like ruling 
> notwithstanding verdict) ?
> 
> - After reading the new certification page again, I
> wonder if the all-list-member review could be better
> as a _screening_ process, prior to Board review of the
> short-list where actual "approval" and "certification"
> are conferred.
> 
> I do believe in the value of the mark as currently conferred, 
> but with this new approach, I am less sure what it will mean.
> 
> Cheers.     dj 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russell Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:45 AM
> > To: license-discuss at opensource.org
> > Subject: License Approval Committee
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, y'all.  We have changed the license approval process.  I've asked
> > Steve to upload the changed page, which is currently at
> > http://russnelson.com/certification_mark.html.  Part of this change
> > gives license-discuss more authority.  You're being deputized to serve
> > as the License Approval Committee.  License approval requests now go
> > directly to you.
> > 
> > I'd like it if somebody would step forward to serve as the Committee
> > chair.  Your duties are to collect a yea/nay recommendation and
> > forward it to me once the discussion on a license dies down.
> > 
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