On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 18:11, Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> wrote:

I'm not absolutely against this, and could be persuaded, but my concern is that members have voting rights, and ultimately control the Foundation.

We are, and should remain, an open and entirely transparent organisation.

I don't know of another standards organisation that allows for voting rights under pseudonyms.

IETF publishes full names for IESG, IAB, Nomcom, etc, for example.

I can be persuaded to change my mind, of course, and I do understand (and worry) that some people may have legitimate reasons why they do not want their name publicly listed.

Nobody seems to have an argument counter to this, or at least, nobody has raised anything.

The closest seems to be that we don't check real names anyway, so someone could use an entirely fake identity. I'm not overwhelmingly convinced by "it's potentially bad now, so let's lean into that" as an argument.

From an individual perspective, I totally understand that having one's name publicly announced is a problem for some.

From an organisational perspective, I still think that having the names of people empowered to control the Foundation be public is part of being an open and transparent organisation.

Dave.