<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jan 2019, at 23:34, Mikel Maron <<a href="mailto:mikel.maron@gmail.com" class="">mikel.maron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">> Why wasn't the report published by the board itself?</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Because the MWG imposed a deadline. We were about to publish. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I personally think it's bad governance to have a WGs setting OSMF timelines without coordination with the Board.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><i class="">Of course</i> we coordinated with the board. We sent the report to the board in the first place. We delayed our release date repeatedly to suit the board, and were constantly running after the board to get feedback. In the interest of transparency, if there is a request, I would be happy to publish the relevant board-mwg email correspondance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The last delay request one hour before midnight was unjustified and unreasonable. The board had known about that date for 12 days. It was clearly in the members’ interest to publish.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It took us a month to write it, should it take you a month to read it?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Guillaume<br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>