Proposed Charter for OpenSource WG

Hi,

> very good question, thank you for that. I do not have a simple answer.
> At the beginning we were thinking specifically about open source
> routing software and later on we extended this idea to open source
> software relevant to the RIPE community. And of course, the overlap
> with DNS WG is pretty obvious. I would be happy this new WG to cover
> also DNS related topic, but DNS WG charter says - "The working group
> discusses DNS software implementations, especially security and
> scalability aspects as well as performance and interoperability
> considerations. " So to avoid the confusion we can explicitly exclude
> DNS software. But perhaps the best way is to start a discussion in
> dns-gw list. Any suggestions?

Instead of defining everything now, why not specify something like:
"If the software/tools being discussed in this working group are relevant for another RIPE working group then the chairs of all relevant working groups will decide together in which working group the discussion takes place. The working groups will then notify their members of the decision."

The outcome might depend on many things. Let's give the chairs the freedom to organise things properly :-)

- Sander