WebServicesPMCProposal

FYI, this passed at today's Board meeting. --GregStein

{{{ ResolutionXXXX to create the Web Services PMC

• WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to Web Services, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Web Services PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Web Services PMC be and hereby is responsible for software related to the provision and discovery of application program interfaces made available via HTTP (and others like SMTP, JMS) and whose requests and responses are usually formatted in XML. The technologies relevant here are those typically associated with "Web Services" by the popular IT press, such as SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI, WSDL, and others. Based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Web Services" be and hereby is created, the person(s) holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Web Services PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Web Services PMC; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Web Services PMC:
  • Owen Burroughs David Chappell Glen Daniels Anthony Elder Christian Geuer-Pollmann Jeremy Hughes Tom Jordahl Erwin van der Koogh Ted Leung Steve Loughran Axl Mattheus Nirmal Mukhi Daniel Rall Scott Nichol Sam Ruby Aleksander Slominski James Snell Davanum Srinivas Sanjiva Weerawarana
  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Davanum Srinivas be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Web Services, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Web Services PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Web Services Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Web Services PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the XML PMC Axis subproject; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Web Services PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the XML PMC SOAP subproject; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Web Services PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the XML PMC Security subproject; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Web Services PMC be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the XML PMC XML-RPC subproject; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the XML Axis sub-project and encumbered upon the Web Services PMC are hereafter discharged. }}}