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Subject: RE: [kmip] Voting by email?
Does OASIS support an electronic attendance tool? A
couple of other standards that I work on have gone to this method and it is very
effective way to avoid wasting time taking attendance.
Cheers,
Scott
From: Jon Callas [mailto:jon@pgp.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:41 PM To: kmip@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [kmip] Voting by email? On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:24 AM, <robert.philpott@rsa.com>
wrote: Okay, it sounds to me like we're in mostly violent agreement. I agree completely with your comment that as much should be done on email
lists as possible. This morning, it took us twenty-plus minutes on the call to
do a roll call and achieve quorum. Yes, that can likely easily halve itself, but
we're still consuming a large part of the meeting in pure overhead.
When I said "email" I mean more of an electronic ballot of any sort. I
really don't care what the mechanism is, I just want more effective use of the
phone call.
If the web-based voting has higher latency, that's too bad, but I think we
can get higher throughput that way. In most ballots, it's going to be mostly
obvious where things are going, anyway. For example, with Matt's binary
alignment proposal, we're mostly in agreement on it with just one point open for
debate. That debate's likely to sort itself out on the mailing list. We can thus
use the valuable phone time for things that are best done on the phone other
than running down a roll call. That's the sort of boring, repetitive task that
computers are ideal for solving.
Jon
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