VOTE NO on PNG Registration 2017-0125

NO
PNG Registration 2017-0125
ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/documents
png-registration-2017-0125.txt
Chris Lilley <[email protected]>

Rationale for NO vote:

The changes in this proposal do not particularly address the endemic 
problems in the technical discussion and approval process.

The rules are needlessly complex, and are often not followed in practice 
(votes with email but no name; votes with Re in subject - yet the intent 
is clear) and are counterproductive (a call for votes that simply 
required replying to it is simpler. An online form is simpler). Adding a 
bit extra complexity here or a tweak there is not helpful.

Having seen technical standardization and stabilization process in other 
areas (W3C, IETF, ISO, ICC, MMA, Arduino) - so I have experience of thr 
good and bad aspects of standardization work - I don't consider this 
group to have a particularly effective or helpful process, and the 
changes in this proposal are minor and not really an improvement.

As I said earlier (and as Greg also says in his rationale) using full 
URLs rather than this odd, two line syntax would be easier and better:
On 2017-02-06 14:05, Chris Lilley wrote:
>
> I'm wondering why the path and the filename have to be on two separate 
> lines; we have URLs for a reason and they are pretty widely deployed :)
>
> Maybe we are making it too hard to do this, when long-term members of 
> the group need multiple attempts to vote correctly.
>
However, that is merely one detail and easy to fix. The other issues - 
the lack of a good, pragmatic, consensus based process for technical 
standardization - are unaddressed by this proposal. I am therefore, with 
regret, voting NO.

-- 
Chris Lilley
@svgeesus
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media


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