David Singer

I would be less prescriptive about the time interval and more prescriptive about satisfying the group. No meeting may be scheduled less than X if any member of the group...

OK, let's try a different way to skin this. How do we feel about groups that say that there will be an informal kick-off meeting open to anyone, that's in...

@glazou indeed you touch on the "what is the or-else?" i.e. what do we do if rules are broken or skirted? We can't control people holding "out of W3C" meetings.

The sense of the AB is that the time-period should be anchored on Charter Approval, not Proposal to the AC (as AC and Director approval is varying length), and consider...

We probably need to clarify resignations (and other involuntary events such as deaths). If someone leaves the AB or TAG, are they still part of the arithmetic when calculating whether...

> fantasai's proposal has one further advantage: it isolates ongoing cases from the electoral cycle. As for the case when participants in the council step down from the council altogether,...

> @dwsinger Main point is it provides continuity of the staffing on a particular case. OK, that seems to be isolating "ongoing cases from the electoral cycle", but whatever.

> Insulating the ODC from the election process undermines the rationale for having the entire AB+TAG on the Council, since it gets it’s credibility as a Decider from the electorate....

By the way, I think that the management may be easier than we think. People are added to the council mailing list, access control lists, etc., when elected/appointed, and removed...

I've shortened my comment to address the specific question, and forked the council size and whether it's AB+TAG into https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues/293.