18:02 | <Michael Ficarra> | the TC55 ballot failed?! |
18:03 | <Michael Ficarra> | @littledan do you have more details on that? |
18:08 | <Aapo Alasuutari> | Nevermind, not sure if the grapevine info is actually okay to share. Dan shall be the arbiter of that. |
18:16 | <littledan> | @littledan do you have more details on that? |
18:17 | <littledan> | Multiple big organizations felt uncomfortable with the combined Ecma + W3C IPR commitments, so we'll have to pursue this either entirely within W3C or entirely within Ecma, to enable them to participate without signing off on both |
18:18 | <littledan> | Even though these orgs have signed off on the IPR individually for both groups, it's a particular new signature per scoped effort, and it feels too uncomfortable to do this for both orgs at once for a single scope. |
18:19 | <littledan> | I would have withdrawn the ballot if rules allowed, and should've just emailed the GA before the vote closed to clarify that I don't want this to go through in this state anymore, due to the concerns raised. |