[Osmf-talk] Status of the SDRP

[Tobias Knerr]

Hi all,

In January 2021, the board appointed the Software Dispute Resolution 
Panel¹ (SDRP), a mechanism for dispute resolution that the iD 
development team opted into. Part of the decision to install the panel 
was a re-evaluation by the Board and in public discussion among the 
Foundation’s members after one year.

Earlier this year, the board inquired about the SDRP's current status. 
 From the response, we learned that no disputes have been brought to the 
SDRP in the preceding year by developers, members of the community or 
OSMF board, so the body's only activity has been an initial kick-off 
meeting.

Because this makes it hard to determine the panel's effectiveness, the 
board's preference is to keep the panel around for another year (i.e. 
until the early months of 2023) in the same composition and repeat the 
evaluation at that time. However, we would like to hear opinions from 
the community on what to do about the SDRP as well.

Yours,
Tobias

¹ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software_dispute_resolution_panel