[ipv6-wg] Proposal for new charter

Jan,

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:21:12PM +0100, Jan Zorz @ go6.si wrote:
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> In this case we saw massive support for Shane's first charter and also 
> support for few suggestions for modifications. Shane just needs to tweak 
> a bit his text and we might get the charter with full consensus in a very 
> short period of time.

I don't think it is useful to speak in terms of people being against
or for a particular proposal. Both me and Sander sent different
revisions of the original text. I don't think either of was not in
support of the original text: we both had some ideas on how it was
possible to rearrange/improve the text. As my text was based on
Sander's text, and I tried to incorporated some of the ideas posted on
the mailing list my text naturally appeared to be somewhat more
different from the original than Sander's. On the other hand, I tried
not to change the direction except from what I picked up from the
comments from the list and the change about leaving out the word
'cooperation' (which was a real change and which I motivated!).

Basically, we really don't have a situation of disagreement: we seem
to have mostly converged but talking on different ways on how to
present/write up the points that we want in the charter. This is not
about disagreeing it is about working together to get the best
possible text together.

I do believe it is important to spend some time on this: the charter
is the first thing that the world sees about the working group so
posting some different options of arranging the text or using
different words gives us a chance to get a charter together that is
clear but also reads well and looks professional.

> I think no more data collecting is needed on this and that's why I agreed 
> on helping Shane with tweaking the text.

Of course the actual final text needs to be written down by somebody
and we asked Shane to do so. In addition, it is perfectly fine if
Shane gets some help. On the other hand, we are a working group and
doing some of the work on the mailing list has the benefit that we
don't have to do as many iterations of the final text as more people
have already seen the potential tweaks and suggestions on the mailing
list (for example, if Sander had send his text privately, he would
have had no idea whether people liked his tweaks).

David Kessens
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