This is the first part of the effort to establish coordination for the ca. Write charters for existing ca. In order to have something to begin getting support for, some preliminary brainstorming on potential newsgroup creation processes will be done, including input from public discussion. The process will not create or change any newsgroups in this phase. In this phase, the brainstorming about possible coordination processes continues and moves on to begin selecting among alternatives.
Tolerance is encouraged.
The newsgroup creation processes will be based on public input, whether they depend on discussion, voting or any combination of them. Procedures requiring the work of volunteers will not be pursued unless enough potential volunteers can be found to have confidence that the procedure can be implemented. An effort should be made to use available experience and learn lessons, good and bad, from other related efforts on UseNet. Once the procedures appear to stabilize after several rounds of revision from discussion on ca.news.group and the volunteers mail list, the procedures will be frozen and implemented. Further modifications can only be made according to the amendment process.