Ballot 116 – Bylaw Amendment for Associate Member Category(passed)

Ballot overview

• Ballot 116 proposed bylaw amendments to align the CA/Browser Forum bylaws with current operational practices.
• The changes addressed Associate Members, Interested Parties, the IPR Agreement, and exhibit renumbering.
• The ballot results section states that the ballot passed.

Main bylaw changes

• Added Associate Members to the IPR and antitrust compliance language.
• Created a new Associate Members subsection describing:
  • invitation-only participation
  • required signing of a mutual letter of intent or similar agreement
  • required signing of the Forum IPR Agreement unless waived in writing
  • permission to attend face-to-face meetings, communicate on member lists, and access the wiki
  • no voting rights except on special straw polls
• Revised Interested Party participation language to:
  • remove the enrollment form and Participation Agreement requirement
  • require providing name, optional affiliation, and contact information
  • require agreement to the IPR Agreement attached as Exhibit A
  • replace Participation with IPR in the compliance sentence
• Expanded Forum Teleconferences and Forum Meetings language to include Associate Members.
• Changed the IPR policy section so that Associate Members and Interested Parties must execute and return the IPR Agreement attached as Exhibit A.
• Deleted the Participation Agreement definition.
• Removed Exhibits B and D and renumbered exhibit references so that:
  • Exhibit A is the IPR Agreement
  • Exhibit B is the Project Lifecycle

Voting and timing

• Review period: 2014-03-10 2200 UTC to 2014-03-17 2200 UTC
• Voting period: immediately after the review period and closing 2014-03-24 2200 UTC
• The ballot text says the motion would be adopted if two thirds or more of CA votes and more than 50% of browser votes were in favor, with at least six members participating.

Result

• The evidence explicitly says the ballot passed.
• The supplied evidence does not state any IPR exclusion notices.