Ballot 73 – Public Mail-List

Ballot overview

• Ballot 73, Public Mail-List, was passed unanimously.
• The motion asked the list manager to establish a new Forum mail list.
• Current subscribers to the management mail list were to be subscribed to the new list with no action required.
• Forum members, both voting and observing, were allowed to post to the list.
• Anyone else was allowed to subscribe and receive posted messages, but could not post until a mechanism for obtaining agreement to the IPR policy had been implemented.
• The Webmaster was asked to post subscription instructions on the Forum website.
• Agendas and minutes of future Forum meetings were to be posted to the list, and other messages could be posted at the originator’s discretion.

Timing stated in the motion

• The ballot review period came into effect at 21:00 UTC on April 27, 2012.
• The review period was to close at 21:00 UTC on May 4, 2012.
• Unless withdrawn during review, the voting period was to start immediately afterward and close at 21:00 UTC on May 11, 2012.

Compliance implications

• The evidence states a condition for outside subscribers: they could not post until an IPR agreement mechanism had been implemented.
• No separate normative effective date for CA compliance is stated in the evidence.