Considerations for publishing formal objections. (#222)

Address w3c/process#735 
 following w3c/process#808

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Co-authored-by: Ted Thibodeau Jr <[email protected]>

council/council.html

@@ -156,6 +156,44 @@ <h3 id="team-fo"><a href="#team-fo">Team attempts to resolve Formal Objections</
 
   <p>See also: <a href="https://www.w3.org/Member/wiki/DirectorFOdashboard#Team_is_attempting_to_find_consensus_or_not_ready_to_ask_a_Council">Ongoing Team Attempts</a></p>
 
+  <h3 id="publishing-fos"><a href="#publishing-fos">Publishing formal objections</a></h2>
+
+  <p>
+    Formal objections must be made public using <a
+    href='https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-review-comments/'>public-review-comments</a>, no later than when the
+    relevant council is initiated. The team should publish formal objections as soon as
+    reasonable within the 90 days investigation and mediation period, with some
+    considerations including:
+  </p>
+  <ul>
+    <li>all Formal Objections must be published, even those that are expected to
+      be — or have already been — withdrawn.
+    </li>
+    <li>the Formal Objection ought to be made public as soon as it is
+      received if it needs to be discussed by a <a
+      href='https://www.w3.org/groups/'>W3C Group</a>.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      to avoid unproductive attention on members who file formal objections
+      on easily resolved matters such as charter durations and the like, the Team should
+      anonymize such formal objections as a matter of routine.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      If there are multiple Formal Objections to the same decision or to the same AC Review,
+      the Team should make them all public at the same time, to avoid attracting unwarranted
+      unbalanced media attention to a single objector among several. For the same reason, if
+      some formal objections are already public — for instance, if the objector made it
+      public themselves — the Team should make any other formal objection to the same decision or
+      to the same AC Review public without delay.
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+
+  <p>
+    To avoid leaving people wondering what happened, the Team should post a response to the
+    announcement of the formal objection, indicating the resolution of the formal objection,
+    such as overruled or withdrawn, and giving a quick summary as to why.
+  </p>
+
 <h2 id="referral"><a href="#referral">Referral to W3C Council</a></h2>
 
 <p>If resolution is not possible in the allocated time frame, the assignee must refer the Formal Objection to the W3C Council for decision. The steps for that are as follows:</p>