Thanks, Michael. I knew the TC operates that way so I found the exchange confusing. 

The key issue here is IPR commitments that go with contributions. When someone makes a contribution to the TC - chunk of code or whatever - their IPR has to be covered. For TC members, they are committed by joining and being on the roster. For any non-TC members, contribution has to be done via the comment list to gain the equivalent commitment. That protection for the TC and Oasis is the key thing I look for. 

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 2:47 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
Chet, all,

In fact TC voted to conduct all business by electronic ballot, without
meetings.

Both non-TC and TC members will inevitably meet to discuss things like
their plans or implementation efforts. We hardly can, or want to,
prevent that. However:
Any such meetings are not mandatory to maintain voting rights. Anything
discussed in such meetings has no force as a TC decision. Such a meeting
will not be listed in the TC calendar. Neither can material be solely
presented in such a meeting or in the doc linked - it has to be posted
to the mailing list to be considered for inclusion in the specification.

In particular all this applies to the Virtio-networking upstream
biweekly meeting - this is not a TC meeting, but some TC members attend
it.



On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:53:41PM -0400, Chet Ensign wrote:
> Just a reminder everyone that you must be a TC member to participate in TC
> meetings. Eugenio, Ariel, I don't see you on the roster. Let me know if you
> need directions on how to set up your OASIS logins as Redhat employees. 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> /chet 
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 5:33 AM Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 7:48 AM Ariel Adam <aadam@redhat.com> wrote:
>     >
>     > The "Virtio-networking upstream biweekly meeting" which happens on
>     Wednesday's every 2 weeks (led by Eugenio and Jason) was meant to get all
>     the companies interested in virtio networking together to help move things
>     forward (both virtio-networking/spec and vDPA).
>     >
>     > See meeting notes from previous meetings: https://docs.google.com/
>     document/d/1FoPi81zQmo5y20G0Yntg-eGHX14LnWc63TwR57mCbs4/edit#
>     >
>     > Why not use that meeting and just add more topics given that a lot of the
>     relevant companies already join this meeting?
>     >
>
>     Yes, that fits perfectly with the purpose of the meeting. And it has
>     been used in the past to discuss AQ if I recall correctly.
>
>     The shared document is already open for writing so everybody can
>     propose new topics.
>
>     Thanks for bringing it to the discussion!
>
>     > Thanks.
>     >
>     > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 3:54 AM Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> At the moment to my knowledge, many TC members are working on many new
>     features for virtio network device specification - all of us working in
>     parallel.
>     >>
>     >> I feel a biweekly meeting would help us virtio networking developers
>     collaborate more effectively.
>     >> For example, we can discuss how do features each one is working on
>     interact, what timeframe is each one targeting, etc.
>     >>
>     >> I suggest:
>     >> - A biweekly meeting using google meet.
>     >> - Meeting agenda will be posted on list before a week so people
>     >>   will have a full week to review, respond on the existing mailing
>     lists.
>     >> - If no agenda items for that meeting day, meeting will be cancelled.
>     >> - Minutes will be posted on list after a meeting.
>     >> - non-TC members can also join; this is an additional space to get input
>     >>   from outside experts, under the existing terms of OASIS feedback
>     license.
>     >>
>     >> - All decisions are still made by TC electronic ballot as usual.
>     Proposed collaboration
>     >>   meetings are unrelated to TC ballot. The point is ability to
>     collaborate,
>     >>   plan and split work better between developers working in the same spec
>     area.
>     >>
>     >> For the first meeting, I propose the following agenda item:
>     >> - discuss new virtio net device features for 1.4 spec release
>     >>
>     >> I suggest several day & time slots.
>     >> Days:
>     >> - Tue (May 30) or
>     >> - Wed (May 31)
>     >> Time:
>     >> - 2 pm GMT, or
>     >> - 5 am GMT
>     >>
>     >> We can pick other time/day options as well depending on who wants to
>     attend and in which time zone.
>     >>
>     >> If all this sounds interesting to you, if you would like to attend this
>     and hopefully future collaboration meetings,
>     >> please reply with email, cc to list:
>     >> a. preferred time slots that work for you.
>     >> b. any items you would like to add to above agenda.
>     >>
>     >> Any other comments, suggestions?
>     >>
>     >> Regards,
>     >> Parav Pandit
>     >>
>     >> This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the
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