Re: [openpgp] chairs for chartering process

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 07 May 2015 08:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] chairs for chartering process
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On Wed,  6 May 2015 20:12, cdl@asgaard.org said:

> Working Groups have a tendency to continue to exist past their
> "use-by" date.  As they do, the quality and velocity of their output
> tends to decline.  There are some counterexamples, but, unfortunately,

I understand.

> more expansive, we can propose that for a charter, but the larger the
> charter, the more "convincing" we need to do, especially if the
> technology is mature like PGP is.

I am fine with 

>>> 1) The primary charter goal would be create a RFC4880bis document.
>>>  a) At the end of that process, we would either re-charter, or close.

this.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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