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Subject: RE: [chairs] When is a TCs work =?UTF-8?Q?done=3F?=
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Subject: Re: [chairs] When is a TCs work done?
From: Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, July 17, 2010 1:11 pm
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
Cc: dennis.hamilton@acm.org, chairs@lists.oasis-open.org,
"'Martin Chapman'" <MARTIN.CHAPMAN@oracle.com>, robert_weir@us.ibm.com
David,
I assume you're talking about the CAM TC, although you never mention it by name; please correct me if I'm wrong.
I have a hard time imagining Mary or anybody else in OASIS Staff in the role of the wicked witch of the TCAdmin, so I went digging around.
Section 2.5 of the TC Process says explicitly that "The TC Administrator must close a TC that has completed the deliverables listed in its charter."
The deliverables listed in the CAM TC charter are targeted for 2003. It is now seven years later. If the deliverables were indeed delivered, and you want/need to continue the TC, it's time to recharter, don't you think?. The TC process document explains how to do this. If the deliverables were not delivered, dude, what have you been doing these past seven years? What kind of TC are we talking about?
As regards the TC membership, it is below what the TC process defines as "Minimum Membership" in Section 1, definition m: at least two organizational members among five voting members. What you currently have is less than that. I don't see any twenty people in the roster, and no, observers don't count. Not even non-voting members. Observers are nothing more than mail-list subscribers. They really really really don't count. Truly. The Minimum Membership concept is there to ensure a TC has a reasonable minimum of community or industry support and it is not just the playing ground of one company or individual.
You should also remember that OASIS is one of the least expensive organizations of its type, and it operates on an extremely restricted budget with an extremely small staff, none of whom is trained in CPR. Asking them to basically resuscitate a TC is quite unrealistic.
As to the role of the OASIS TC admin, it's very simple: it's to ensure that the TC process is being observed by all. If you believe that the TC admin is overstepping his/her role, you can appeal; see Section 4.2, Appeals. If you believe the TC process document should be changed, send email to the Board of Directors (oasis-board-comment@lists.oasis-open.org) with a concrete proposal.
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