Re: Agenda Process Task Force Telcon on 30 September

On 23/09/2014 21:47, Jeff Jaffe wrote:

>> 5.      Issue-34: Remove the Good Standing rules from the process
>> document? <http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/34>
>> Beside the recent discussion on the mailing list, when this was
>> discussed (some time ago) in the AB, It was pointed out that the terms
>> Bad Standing (Not in Good Standing) was pejorative and led some
>> organizations (especially User Organizations) to avoid joining a
>> Working Group because they did not want their participants to be
>> labelled as being in Bad Standing when their Day Job prevented them
>> from participating as frequently as desired. Thus, besides removing
>> Good Standing, if the description is moved to some resource for
>> Charter Creation, then then a name change for the two categories
>> should be done. At the risk of starting a Bikeshedding activity and
>> based on the current effect of Good Standing, I suggest Voting
>> Participant and Non-voting participant. There may, however, be better
>> names and this group does not need to define them.

I think we are far beyond a definition of Voting or non-Voting...
It seems pretty clear that the terms determining a transition
from Voting to non-Voting are impossible to apply, in particular where
it's needed the most, the AB. The proposal is not to bikeshed but to
remove Standing from the Process ; it is unused and unusable. Call
that cleanup.

</Daniel>

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