ARTICLE IV. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 4.1 General Powers. Notes: Add to (a) (a)... The Board of Directors shall determine the process to evaluate and confirm an Open Infrastructure Project as part of the Foundation as well as the structure of the commercial and technical management of each Open Infrastructure Project. The Board of Directors shall approve commercial management structure, if any, of each Open Infrastructure Project and the technical management structure, if any, of each Open Infrastructure Project. The members of the commercial management, if any, shall be defined as the OIP Management Committee Members and the members of the technical management, if any shall be defined as the OIP Technical Committee Members. Q1. Are OIP MC members and OIP TC members considered for the purpose of code of conduct & compliances meeting the requirements same as Openstack TC members? 4.2 Number and Term of Office Q2. Notes: Delete from (c) (Board of Directors Platinum + Gold = 24, for Individual members the nyumer limit is? The vote for the initial Gold Director Selectors as provided in Section 4.2 (c) and in January, 2013 shall be limited to the Initial Gold Directors (as defined in the Gold Member Policy). The vote for the Gold Director Selectors in January, 2014 shall be limited to sixteen (16) Gold Members with the earliest date of commencement of their terms. For all elections after January 2014, all Gold Members may vote. 4.13 Technical Committee. Q3. Note (c) is being dropped & (e) is being added for TC (c) On the written request of at least three (3) members of the Technical Committee, the Board of Directors shall appoint a mediator to assist in the resolution of any dispute or deadlock in the Technical Committee. Added as (e) (e) Unless otherwise decided by the Board of Directors, the Technical Committee shall not manage the technical matters related to an Open Infrastructure Project. 4.14 User Committee. Q4. Note (c) is not being dropped? Why is it different for UC? but (f) is added? (c) On the written request of at least three (3) members of the User Committee, the Board of Directors shall appoint a mediator to assist in the resolution of any dispute or deadlock in the User Committee. (f) Unless otherwise decided by the Board of Directors, the User Committee shall not manage the user relationships for an Open Infrastructure Project. 4.20 Code of Conduct. The directors, officers, employees, members of the Technical Committee, OIP Management Committee Members, OIP Technical Committee Members and contractors shall comply with the Code of Conduct attached as Appendix 5. The Members shall comply with the Community Code of Conduct attached as Appendix 6. Q5.Where is Appendix 6 or is it a typo and should it refer to Appendix A or B or something new? ARTICLE VII. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY Q6. Where is Appendix 7? Contributor License Agreements attached as Appendix 7 as in 7.1 below? 7.1 Licenses and Contribution Agreements for Software. (a) The Foundation shall generally accept contributions of software made pursuant to the terms of the Contributor License Agreements attached as Appendix 7....Board of Directors may delegate the authority to make non material amendments to the Contributor License Agreement to the Executive Director so long as such modifications permit distribution of the software under Apache License 2.0 for the OpenStack Project. (c) The Board of Directors may approve a license for an Open Infrastructure Project other than Apache License 2.0, but such license must be a license approved by the Open Source Initiative at the date of adoption of such license. Q7. Does 7.1 eith CLA says it will ensure Apache Lince 2.0 and same is contradicted in (c) Board may approve licenses other that Apache license 2.0? Any explaination as what this means for usage of code restrictive versus non-restrictive usage? Note: Trademark and standard IPR policy apply to both OpenStack & OIP as well. ARTICLE VIII. ANTITRUST POLICY The Antitrust Policy of the Foundation is attached as Appendix 9. Q9. Where is Appenidix 9, please attach to document. ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENT (d) In addition to the vote of the Board of Directors as provided in Section 9.1, the amendment of the following Sections requires an affirmative vote of (i) two-thirds of the Gold Members, (ii) two-thirds of the Platinum Members, and (iii) a majority of the Individual Members voting (but only if at least 10% of the Individual Members vote at an annual or special meeting): Article II (not including the Appendices referenced in Article II), Sections 4.1(a), 4.2(a), 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.13(a), 4.13(c), 4.13(d), 4.13(e), 4.17, 4.20, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4 (except that approval of an amendment to Section 7.4 requires a two thirds vote of the Board of Directors instead of the vote provided in Section 9.1), and 9.2(d), and. The amendment of the Technical Committee Member Policy shall require the affirmative vote of the majority of the Board of Directors and the majority of the Technical Committee Q10. Needs some explaination on the background to this chane? Id thisthe amedment replacing (TC earlier reference: Q3. Note (c) is being dropped & (e) is being added for TC) Noted as in (d) above: The amendment of the Technical Committee Member Policy shall require the affirmative vote of the majority of the Board of Directors and the majority of the Technical Committee. Appendix 4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER POLICY 1.Membership of Technical Committee. All members selected to the Technical Committee shall be Individual Members (the initial members of the Technical Committee do not need to be Individual Members). A member of the Technical Committee may cease to be an Individual Member during his or her term, but must be an Individual Member at the time of nomination. Q11. Note that to get elected/nominated as TC member you must be activeIndividual member and once elected and start serving during the course you as Individual member can resign, without loosing your position and Board finds a replacement. Is this correct? 2. Election to Technical Committee. (a) The members of the Technical Committee shall be elected by a vote of the Active Technical Contributors (�ATC�) using a fair voting method determined by the Technical Committee. Each Technical Committee member shall hold the seat for a term not to exceed sixteen months, but may be re-elected to the Technical Committee. After the initial electionJanuary 1, 2019, the term for the members of the Technical Committee shall be twelve calendar months from the date that the members join the Technical Committee (�Term�) but the Term may be amended by a majority vote of the Board of Directors and a majority vote of the Technical Committee. , After January 1, 2019 ,the elections for the Technical Committee shall be held at least every eight calendar months. Q12. Does everyone confirm that siteen month term for TC will be revised starting Jan 2019 to 12 months and election cycle will be adjusted to 8 months?