Replace the role of the Director in concluding AC Review

[frivoal]

The pre-existing seciton had a number of issues already, but they would be made worse without the oversight of the Director:

• No link between the consensus of the AC and which decision is taken
• No constraint on what decision may be taken
• Ability to make (certain) changes unannounced
• Unrestricted ability to make substantive changes to a document
• Ability to make substantive changes to a REC without triggering patent exclusion opportunities, or fullfilling other REC criteria

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The Revising W3C Process CG just discussed Director-free [continuation to completion].

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<fantasai> Topic: Director-free [continuation to completion]
<fantasai> github: https://github.com//pull/646

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The Revising W3C Process CG just discussed Replace the role of the Director in concluding AC Review, and agreed to the following:

• RESOLVED: Merge 646

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<fantasai> subtopic: Replace the role of the Director in concluding AC Review
<fantasai> github: https://github.com//pull/646
<fantasai> florian: Old process relied on Director here
<fantasai> ... first there was AC review
<fantasai> ... then Director decides to do something after the review
<fantasai> ... There's no actual linkage between the results of the review and what the Director does
<fantasai> ... You'd expect that Director would try to reflect consensus, but this was not required
<fantasai> florian: There was also issue that Director could make editorial changes without even announcing the changes
<fantasai> ... sure, reasonable to change; but shouldn't be allowed to change it secretly
<fantasai> florian: So now if go through AC Review and AC says yes, expected to adopt
<fantasai> ... if objections, goes to Council ...
<fantasai> ... and added allowances for edits, with appropriate notifications etc.
<fantasai> florian: basically encodes existing practice, which is important now that we don't have a Director
<fantasai> plh: Do we have a link to the guidebook?
<fantasai> florian: Various places, but not here specifically
<fantasai> plh: When adopting proposal with substantial changes [reads]
<fantasai> ... we do have specific mailing lists that we copy
<fantasai> ... maybe worth adding a link to the proper subpart of the guide?
<fantasai> florian: I think we could do that in a separate PR
<fantasai> ... this has been up for review for awhile, let's merge and then do tweaks
<fantasai> plh: fair enough
<fantasai> plh: Any objection to merge 646?
<fantasai> florian: btw, while dsinger isn't here today, he was with us when we wrote this, and is in support
<TallTed> +1 merge
<fantasai> plh: I don't hear anyone asking to wait or raising objections, so shall we resolve?
<florian> +1
<fantasai> RESOLVED: Merge 646
<cwilso> +1