[AFS3-std] Second Draft of Standardisation Document: Registrars

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

>
> On 29 Aug 2008, at 21:04, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>
> > OK, then.  Now let's see if we can agree on some text.  I'll
> > propose the following as a replacement for the next-to-last
> > paragraph of 2.3.2:
> >
> > 	This combination of roles makes it difficult for a single
> > 	individual to serve as registrar.  Instead, it is proposed to
> > 	expand the role of registrar to include a number of individuals
> > 	from the community.  This group would initially be composed as
> > 	described in section 3.
> >
> > 	Once established, the registrars set their own procedures for
> > 	adding new registrars, removing registrars, and determining the
> > 	size of the group.  In the event there are no registrars, a new
> > 	group will be formed consisting of one representative from each
> > 	active AFS implementation and one representative chosen by the
> > 	chairs.
> >
> > I would also add the following sentence to the last paragraph of
> > 2.3.2:
> >
> > 	The registrars must make the current set of registries available to
> > 	the community, including versions in the preferred source form.
>
> I'm happy to adopt these. In an ideal world, I'd like to keep the
> bootstrapping details separate from the core document - so I'd prefer
> to delete the final sentence of your first paragraph, if that's
> acceptable, and remove "Once established" from the first sentence of
> the second.

Sure, I don't have a problem with that.