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Subject: Re: [chairs] Simplified TC attendance rules
- From: Diane Jordan <drj@us.ibm.com>
- To: James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:01:18 -0400
Thanks Jamie, but I still would like
a clarification:
- a person applies to join a TC. They
are an applicant until until approved by their company's primary representative.
- once approved they become a member.
- if they attend 2 consecutive meetings,
they get voting rights.
- if they do not attend 2 consecutive
meeting, they get voting rights after 60 days.
- voting rights are lost again after
missing 2 consecutive meetings.
Is this right? I've noticed there
are a number of people who enroll in the BPEL TC and never attend any meetings.
They used to be observers but now are members. We meet weekly,
which may make our situation a bit more dynamic - after 60 days we would
give them voting rights and then taking them away again 2 meetings later.
It used to be that attendance requirements had to be met during the
probationary period before voting rights were conferred. That still
seems like an appropriate bar to get voting rights.
Regards, Diane
IBM Emerging Internet Software Standards
drj@us.ibm.com
(919)254-7221 or 8-444-7221, Mobile: 919-624-5123, Fax 845-491-5709
James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
08/10/2005 11:36 PM
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After the 15 April 2005 TC Process revisions
were posted, we received significant feedback from TC chairs and others
that the revised rules for TC attendance in Section 2.4 -- which govern
when voting rights are acquired and lost -- were not easy to administer.
We try to make only infrequent changes to the TC Process, but our
Board of Directors took this feedback to heart and re-examined the rule.
At their last meeting, they directed the Board's TC Process
Committee to simplify the rule. The new text is set out at the bottom
if this message. Note:
-- A TC member who fails to attend may lose their *voting*
rights as a result, but their *membership* does not expire due to absences.
-- Most felt that the "2 out of 3" and "3
out of 4" formulations we've discussed were easy to misinterpret.
So we built the revised rule around "2 consecutive meetings":
members will lose voting rights by missing 2 in a row, and regain
them after attending 2 in a row.
-- A simple rule should be easier to administer. This
is important because we rely on volunteer TC chairs and secretaries to
mind attendance. Our next task will be to make the database-driven
TC rosters and attendance tracking functions more user-friendly.
-- We did also consider, but declined, giving TC chairs discretionary
power to waive the attendance rules. There were a range of opinions
here. More focused on the risk of inconsistent or inappropriate use
of the waiver. A person with a planned absence still can employ the
leave of absence rules.
The Board delegated the power to change this rule to the
TC Process Committee, so that we could amend immediately instead of waiting
another month. We enacted this change on Tuesday, effective immediately
upon posting, and will post it to the [members] list and the official TC
Process page shortly after this announcement to you. Our thanks to
the TC leaders and participants who flagged this issue for us and suggested
solutions. The revised test of the rule follows.
REVISED TEXT:
2.4 TC Membership and Participation
TC membership is per person, not per organization, and is
not transferable from person to person.
Observer
An Eligible Person may become an Observer of a TC by registering
as an Observer using the electronic collaboration tools provided by OASIS.
If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization,
the Primary Representative of that organization must be notified that the
person has requested to become an Observer. The Observer is not a Member
of the TC so has no attendance or participation requirements to maintain
this status, other than to remain an Eligible Person.
Member
Any time after the first meeting, an Eligible Person shall
become a Member of an existing TC by registering as a Member using the
electronic collaboration tools provided by OASIS. If the Eligible Person
is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization, the Primary
Representative of that organization must confirm to the Chair and to the
TC Administrator that the person may become a Member of the TC. Upon receipt
by the Chair of confirmation by the Primary Representative the Member may
begin participating, but shall not have voting rights. A Member shall become
eligible to vote in the TC when the requirements below are met.
Voting Member
After the first Meeting of a TC, a Member shall gain voting
rights at the close of the second consecutive Meeting attended by the Member
or 60 days after the person becomes a Member, whichever comes first.
A Voting Member must be active in a TC to maintain voting
rights. In TCs that hold Meetings, a Voting Member who is absent from two
consecutive Meetings (as recorded in the minutes) loses his or her voting
rights at the end of the second Meeting missed. If a TC has adopted a standing
rule to conduct business only by electronic ballot, without Meetings, then
a Voting Member who fails to cast a ballot in two consecutive Specification
Ballots loses his or her voting rights at the close of the second ballot
missed.
A Member who has lost his or her voting rights shall regain
them for a TC that holds Meetings by attending two consecutive Meetings
(as recorded in the minutes), thus regaining voting rights after the end
of the second Meeting attended. A Member of a TC that does not hold
Meetings may regain voting rights by making a request to the chair(s) to
regain them, effective 60 days after the request.
Voting Members who lose their voting rights remain Members
of the TC. A warning may be sent to the Member by the Chair, but the loss
of voting rights is not dependent on the warning.
END
Regards Jamie
~ James Bryce Clark
~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
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