Section 1.a of the Hyperledger charter states:
1. Mission of Hyperledger Project (“HLP”).
The mission of HLP is to:
a. create an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and code base, upon which users can build and run robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions.
The mission of creating an enterprise grade DLT fell by the wayside years ago; what I propose is, in short:
- The current TSC term is extended and ends with CY2021
- Seats on the replacement TSC (15 seats) are decided by appointment:
- Each premier member gets one seat (7 total)
- Each top-level graduated project gets one seat (6 total)
- The working groups get one seat (1 total)
- The sigs get one seat (1 total)
- No entity may have more than two seats
- One person cannot have more than one seat
- How the projects, SIGs, and working groups decide on how the seat they have available is filled is delegated those parties
- The chair and co-chair are elected as before
One knock-on of this would be each project would need to have more formal meetings, as they would essentially have a project-specific TSC.
Rude FAQ:
Q: you propose replacing an election with appointments? this seems very anti-democratic
A: I feel that many projects which report to the TSC have never had any representation on the TSC; I feel that is worse. Furthermore, every year it has proven more difficult to run the election, distribute the ballots, and the like
Q: Limiting an entity to two seats seems rude
A: I'm not married to that!