<div dir="ltr"><div>Intent is to be able to vote on the item itself, not just the wording. But the wording is not onerous. It will likely be as simple as adding this one liner to the Voting Member level of membership: Access to any confidential/pre-release documentation in working groups.</div><div><br></div><div>An example of how this plays out is that we have industry partnerships with both SNIA and DMTF. These orgs do a pre-release review period of their specs and such where members are allowed to scan the pre-release documents looking for any specific IP that should not be part of the released spec. We have access to those pre-release documents as part of our trade agreement. These documents are NDA/confidential. If no restricted IP is found in the documents prior to release, then they are released as-is and the IP becomes public. However, it is possible that accidental inclusion of non-public IP might exist in those documents. Since we are granted access to them, we are obligated to maintain the confidentiality during the review period, and obligated to maintain the confidentiality of any information removed prior to public release even after the release. Of course, anyone can simply forgo reviewing the documents if they wish to maintain clean hands and have no confidentiality requirements. But, the intent of the amendment is to make access to this information granted at the voting level and above (if you can't vote in a working group anyway, then you aren't participating at a level where access to confidential information makes sense is the logic behind that placement).<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 3:17 AM Bernard Metzler <<a href="mailto:BMT@zurich.ibm.com">BMT@zurich.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5988816488542295135">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Doug,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">regarding 1) below: What is the item about? Is it to agree on the text of an amendment to the Membership Policy _<i>plus</i>_ immediate voting to make it part of the MP document? Or are we just developing the text to consensus and giving
some grace period letting the members go back to their lawyers to check if that is all good?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bernard.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ofa_boardplus <<a href="mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">ofa_boardplus-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Doug Ledford<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 20 September 2023 05:39<br>
<b>To:</b> Ofa_boardplus <<a href="mailto:ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Ofa_boardplus] Agenda for this week's OFA Board meeting - 2 Votable items<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">Hi everyone, We will be holding the Board meeting this week and have two votable items: 1) An amendment to the Membership Policy to grant access to NDA materials
shared with us from our partners for Voting level memberships and above (this <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We will be holding the Board meeting this week and have two votable items:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) An amendment to the Membership Policy to grant access to NDA materials shared with us from our partners for Voting level memberships and above (this is primarily pre-release materials, and once things are officially released, they are
released publicly, so the NDA information is only short lived until release)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) Ratifying our proposed 2024 budget and dues<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please plan to attend. Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Doug Ledford <<a href="mailto:dledford@redhat.com" target="_blank">dledford@redhat.com</a>><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD <u></u><u></u></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Doug Ledford <<a href="mailto:dledford@redhat.com" target="_blank">dledford@redhat.com</a>></div><div style="margin-left:40px">GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD <br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD<br></div></div></div>