Re: [openpgp] heads-up: re-chartering the OPENPGP WG

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 21/10/2020 02:29, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
>> The draft charter is at [1].
> 
> I would remove the "Other work related to OpenPGP" section. One of the
> issues in this group has been sudden new items appearing and being
> worked on without consensus. Modify the charter after 4880bis is done
> to do "other work"

Fair point. Be interested if others think similarly.

>> From my POV, I'm happy to try help out to get a fairly
>> minimal bit of progress progressed (as an RFC) - if we can
>> usefully succeed in that (which isn't a given).
> 
> I would say adding at least one more Author/Editor to the bis document
> is required to ensure timely and coordinated updates of the draft based
> on WG consensus. As part of the last round of openpgp WG not working
> seemed to center around a (perceived or real I have no opinion) disconnect
> between WG members and draft author.

That's probably getting a bit ahead of ourselves but
it's clearly a topic for WG chairs to consider if/when
this becomes a WG again. I can say it's not a surprise
that that be raised, and dealing with it without messing
up too badly will be an important early thing for your
putative WG-chairs to handle;-)

Cheers,
S.

> 
> Paul
> 
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