Notice of vote on the proposal to create the PAPE working group

[Mike Jones]

In accordance with the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures<http://openid.net/foundation/intellectual-property/>, this message notifies OpenID Foundation members that a vote that will be held on the creation of the PAPE working group between noon Friday, June 6th US Pacific Time and noon Friday, June 13th US Pacific Time.

The proposal to create the working group is available at http://openid.net/pipermail/specs/2008-May/002323.html.  The specifications council report on the creation of the working group is available at http://openid.net/pipermail/specs/2008-May/002326.html.

Members of the Foundation can vote during that time interval by sending a message to votes at openid.net<mailto:votes at openid.net> with the subject line "PAPE Vote" and one of the sentences "I vote for the creation of the PAPE working group", "I vote against the creation of the PAPE working group", or "I abstain in the vote about the creation of the PAPE working group" in the body of the message.  (The votes at openid.net<mailto:votes at openid.net> list is for voting only and can not be used for asking questions or discussion.  Discussion can occur on the general at openid.net<mailto:general at openid.net> list.)

(The rest of this note is informational and not part of the notification of the vote to create the PAPE working group.)

Given that the OpenID specification procedures call for votes of the membership, this would be a good time for those wanting to influence the outcome of this specification to join the OpenID Foundation.  You can do so at http://openid.net/foundation/join/.  Should you wish to join the working group, you will also need to execute the Contribution Agreement at http://openid.net/foundation/intellectual-property/ once the working group formation has been approved by the membership.

                                                -- Mike

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