Bill's on vacation this week so he may have a different perspective, but I don't have a problem with the statement as it's made, i.e., Red Hat having a permanent position on the board. I've been involved with standards for 20+ years through OMG, OASIS, W3C, WS-I, GGF, JCP and others. What's proposed in the whole effort around REST-* is far less Evil Empire and far more Benign Coordinator. If we have problems with the approach in the future of course we can re-examine it, but at this stage I think it's fine.

Mark.


On 8 Sep 2009, at 18:46, Sam Johnston wrote:

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:20 PM, David Lutterkort <lutter@redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 18:28 -0400, Bob McWhirter wrote:
> I personally think that we might want to leverage the community
> that'll also be building around REST-* (http://jboss.org/reststar).
> There, the intent it to build RESTful APIs (but not necessarily
> implementations) for things like messaging, transactions, and storage.

Very cool; the world will definitely be a better place with agreement on
API's in those areas.

This all sounds very similar to my vision for OGF's OCCI and is exactly why I've split off core from infrastructure concerns - it definitely sounds like we should be collaborating more in future.

FWIW REST-* sounds like something I could get behind but to be completely candid (as always) I'm disappointed to see similar governance shenanigans to those that undermined the WS-I: "Red Hat, as the founder of REST-*, gets a permanent seat on the board. All other board members must be elected by the overall membership once a year". If it's not too late then please reconsider this position.

Sam

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