[governance] Amending the charter was Re: [] Survey ….

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 20/02/12 21:30, Avri Doria wrote:
> Of course if you want to amend the charter to require action by the
> co-cos as stated in your note, then that is something that you and 9
> others who agree with you can have put to a vote by the qualified
> members. In Sela's reply there seemed to be an implication (forgive me
> if I misunderstood, it is what i inferred) that it was up to Jeremy's
> WG to review all amendments. I do not think this is the case. Any 10
> people can submit amendments anytime - they do not need to be
> processed first by any group or by the co-cos for that matter. There
> is certainly no problem with Jeremy and a group of likeminded
> individuals getting together to propose amendments, it is just that
> the Charter does not give special status to a WG and its requests. It
> is, for all intents and purposes the same as any self-selected group
> of 10 or more members who might decided to put a proposal for charter
> amendment.

Agree.

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