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Results of Questionnaire Decision Policy

The results of this questionnaire are available to anybody.

This questionnaire was open from 2020-08-05 to 2020-08-10.

7 answers have been received.

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Accept new Decision Policy

1. Accept new Decision Policy

Proposed

The draft of the proposed Decision Policy. You can read the summary of Michael Cooper's presentation of the new policy in the meeting minutes of 4 August 2020.

Summary

Choice	All responders
Choice	Results
Yes	4
Yes, with changes. Use the comments to propose changes.	3
No

Details

Responder	Accept new Decision Policy	Comments
Rachael Bradley Montgomery	Yes, with changes. Use the comments to propose changes.	Please add a plain language summary of key points at the top.
Bruce Bailey	Yes	The term "sleeper objections" feels more pejorative than necessary but I cannot put my finger on a more common phrase.
Jake Abma	Yes
Janina Sajka	Yes	I think it very helpful to spell out how decisions are reached. Similarly helpful will be the log of decisions achieved.
John Foliot	Yes, with changes. Use the comments to propose changes.	> Discussion can take place in any recognized channel of the Silver groups including, but not limited to, email, GitHub pull requests, comment threads in GitHub issues or pull requests, edits or comments in Google docs, and on teleconferences. While Deque supports using accessible tools to do this important work, it is also critical that decision discussions can be easily found. Initial discussions can and should use all channels available, but for WBS surveys and other critical decision-making activities, the sheer number of possible places to go do research on previous decisions today is overwhelming. The traditional form of W3C mailing list emails and, more recently, comment threads in GitHub which can be ported to email readers, provide a traceable threaded "discussion". In contrast, Google Docs are difficult to find, because if you don’t know where a particular Google Doc lives, it is almost impossible to use search to find it. Additionally, comments and prior edits of a Google Doc are not easily searchable. Deque requests that Google Docs be removed as an official source of "decision discussion" due to known accessibility concerns, and the lack of robust searchability across multiple docs and across multiple Google Drives. Do the early work there for sure, but then port the actual discussion to a more accessible, searchable and reference-able channel. > When the facilitators believe that the group is ready to come to a decision, they indicate that a decision is imminent and call for objections. >> For decisions being considered in meetings, objections must be raised immediately when there is a call for objections. Deque objects to this clause - invested participants cannot attend every meeting, and the inability to attend a specific meeting when a decision is taken is counter to building consensus. There is no objection to "straw polls" being conducted during calls, but final decisions should follow a more robust and traceable decision path.
Jeanne F Spellman	Yes
Shawn Lauriat	Yes, with changes. Use the comments to propose changes.	+1 to Rachael's proposed changes: Please add a plain language summary of key points at the top.