| Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] [EXTERNAL] Agenda request: Consideration of DOU |
Omkhar: I’m trying to understand your concerns.What specific bureaucratic work is burdensome here?How is it specifically burdensome on the Foundation member class?
The work of developing specifications to support the EU request on CEN/CENELEC will be done in Eclipse specifications projects. Nothing requires any member to adhere to an Eclipse spec, and nothing in this specific working group will require any member to adhere or commit to a CEN/CENELEC standard. I’m trying to understand if the perception of burden is tied to expectations down the road for the outcomes of the work.
Having served as a chair of the Eclipse SDV WG steering committee as well as a chair for the LF Confidential Computing Consortium directed fund (an LF directed fund is the analog to an Eclipse Foundation for other readers), I have some insight into the organizational work involved in doing the actual work members come together around. I’m trying to understand what’s burdensome because a chair may carry extra organizational work, but I don’t see how it effects members in any class.
Sitting in the LF/OpenSSF Governance Committee (and being the alternate governing board member) I appreciate how the LF/OpenSSF is funded and staffed, but your concerns as written speak to "Foundations with limited resources.” I would really appreciate if other Foundation participants in this discussion would please share their specific concerns as well. This is how the FAQ gets better. As I said in earlier email, I am happy to get on a call to answer any questions from my experiences in the process.
Spending time discussing alternative DOU/MOU structures where code-hosting nonprofits aren’t members doing work with the rest of the members seems unhelpful. That is why I would really like to understand the specifics of the burdens that people see here.kind regards, always stephe--
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