Hello TSC and community,
Thank you for everyone's diligent work to make progress of OPNFV.
I am still monitoring the discussion on the mailing list. It draws my attention
that the consensus of TSC meeting somehow may not be completely legal. Let me
recap:
- I did NOT resign. So I am still a TSC Member and the TSC Chair. * This is
current legitimate position, and does not violate OPNFV TSC Charter.- I
designated an Acting TSC Chair effective Jan 1, 2020, who has done a great job.
* This is legitimate, and does not violate OPNFV TSC Charter.- I designated my
proxy in TSC effective Jan 1, 2020. * This is legitimate, and does not violate
OPNFV TSC Charter or any documented and approved policy or procedure. * There
has been NO precedent or requirement of approving a proxy designation. * Thus
my proxy designation does NOT need anyone's approval according to prior
practice. * Any new policy will not have retrospect effect.
Of course, it is certainly TSC's discretion to add new role of TSC Vice-Chair.
Helping hand in leadership is always great.
In conclusion:- I am still a TSC Member and the TSC Chair unless I explicitly
resign. I did NOT resign.- Any attempt or declaration of vacancy of TSC Chair
or TSC Member is illegal. Thus the planned election of TSC Chair or TSC Member
is illegal too because there is no vacancy.- My designation of Acting TSC Chair
is legitimate and already effective.- My designation of TSC Proxy is legitimate
and already effective.- Any new policy does not have retrospect effect.
I suggest that TSC focus on actual strategy, roadmap and how to best achieve
the goal of CNTT under the leadership of Acting TSC Chair, new TSC Vice-Chair
if any, and all TSC members/proxies. Any attempt of declaring vacancy or
related election not only is illegal but also deviates from TSC's job, and
wastes resources.
If anyone, including LFN Staff, disagrees to my points above, please provide
your legal counsel's official opinion, and explicitly refer to relevant
Charter, policy or procedure for any violation, and communicate via public
mailing list.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
Bin
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, 01:53:03 PM PST, Al Morton
<a...@research.att.com> wrote:
Thanks Trevor!
The differences in your recollection and my reading of
my sparse notes are (observed and edited below):
Essentially *when* we would declare Bin's Seat Vacant is
one change, and adding the alternatives that we discussed and
discarded under each topic is another.
For the Seat on TSC, my write-up below seems to be missing the phrase
"after March 31, 2020", resulting in:
> Seat:
> - We have a proxy till filled
> - Declare the Seat Vacant **after March 31, 2020 (if Bin has not returned,
>then)**
> - New Election, according to Public Elections
Consensus that:
> - We need to review and vote on a proxy policy
which is somewhat in-progress (reviewed briefly and commented during the
TSC meeting).
Also, a Consensus that TSC vote to authorize the TSC Chair election,
rather than continue with an Acting Chair:
> Role:
> - *Consensus to hold TSC vote to authorize* an Election for TSC Chair
> - Agree on schedule for nominations and voting (Next step)
Finally, we preferred a new Vice Chair Role over a Co-chair role,
and to fill the new Vice Chair Role after the TSC Chair Election.
> New Role:
> - *Consensus to* Propose new Role *of Vice Chair, not Co-Chair*:
> - TSC Vote whether to Create New Role of TSC Vice Chair, then
> - Election for TSC Vice Chair *(again, TSC needs to agree on schedule)*
I hope everything we talked and agreed is clear(er) now.
Those who were not able to attend the extra discussion
Heather hosted at the Corinthia hotel should feel free
to ask questions. I suppose that one of the questions might
be *who was present*:
TSC: Parker, Georg, Qiao Fu, Sridhar, Mark, Al, Trevor
LF staff: Heather, Dave, Jim, Kenny
regards,
Al
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cooper, Trevor [mailto:trevor.coo...@intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 11:00 AM
> To: MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) <a...@research.att.com>; TSC OPNFV <opnfv-
> t...@lists.opnfv.org>
> Subject: RE: [opnfv-tsc] Meeting on TSC Seat and Role opening &resolution
>
> Heather took notes, suggest checking against those. From memory which may
> be off ...
>
> 1. Chair ... consensus to go the route of an ad hoc election vs acting
> chair. TSC vote needed to proceed for an election.
>
> 2. Proxy ... Need a proxy policy. Consensus to leave proxy in place for
> now vs vacating the seat because it leaves the option open for Bin to
> return.
>
> 4. Consensus to introduce a TSC Vice chair role (not a co-chair role)
>
> Trevor
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org <opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org> On Behalf Of
> Al Morton
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:52 PM
> To: TSC OPNFV <opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>
> Subject: [opnfv-tsc] Meeting on TSC Seat and Role opening &resolution
>
> All,
>
> Our meeting last night reached consensus on a few points
> (subject to editing because I have a very small piece of
> note paper, and am typing quickly before lunch) :
>
> Seat:
> - We have a proxy till filled
> - We need to review and vote a proxy policy
> - Declare the Seat Vacant
> - New Election, according to Public Elections
>
> Role:
> - There will be an Election for TSC Chair
> - Agree on schedule for nominations and voting
>
> New Role:
> - Propose new Role and
> - Vote whether to Create New Role of TSC Vice Chair
> - Election for TSC Vice Chair
>
> Let us first check that the above captures the consensus
> from last night (it may not) among those who were present.
>
> Then, discussion of the points by TSC members who were
> not present is welcome (nothing etched in stone here).
>
> thanks,
> Al
>
>
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