[OGSA-AUTHZ] Revised Charter

[Olle Mulmo]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 02:27, Blair Dillaway wrote:

> Does this make sense? As should be evident, I'm in favor of a  
> broadly scoped AuthZ WG charter that can accommodate multiple  
> deliverables. Are there people who would prefer another approach?

The only downside to that is the risk of spreading the workforce too  
thin, with too many things happening at once.

The approach most commonly used in GGF is to have a narrowly scoped  
charter with one or two deliverables only, crank on those documents,  
then recharter (or die). This resolves the group's common sense of  
urgency of various deliverables up front, as you have to pick and  
choose what to work on for the short-term.

For longer-lived groups, such a recharter-recharter-recharter  
strategy is often accompanied by some visionary outlook or roadmap  
though. Trying to be pragmatic and keep things simple, I don't see  
why that vision couldn't be described as a "background material"  
section as you suggest.

Bottom line: as long as the group is healthy, produce sensible output  
and stay focused on a few things at a time, then the charter doesn't  
really matter.

/Olle