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?
Yes, I will respond to the GA email soon. Sorry for the lack of communication here, I should've written to everyone earlier, but the rules around how to handle things when there's an active ballot are unclear.
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I would have withdrawn the ballot if rules allowed, and should've just emailed the GA before the vote closed to clarify that I don't want this to go through in this state anymore,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.