Re: [orms] Charter proposal

[Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>]

This is entirely incorrect.

The Committee can agree to clarify or change the charter at any time  
for whatever reasons may make sense to the TC and has the right to do  
so.

These actions are at the discretion of the TC and require a Special  
Majority vote of the TC.

See 2.11 and 2.12 in the TC Process
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#charterClarification

In this case I believe we are discussing clarification, which is  
entirely reasonable.

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On May 14, 2008, at 10:05 AM, ext n-sakimura@nri.co.jp wrote:

> Here is my observation on on the activities trying to change the  
> Charter text after a bit of contemplation.
>
> 1.	There has been a period that you could amend the charter. You  
> have not acted during the period.
> 2.	By becoming a member of the TC after the period, all the member  
> have agreed to the Charter text and the IPR. This is a binding  
> contract. If the text is changed, you have to go back to your legal  
> department etc. to get an approval again.
> 3.	It is not a sound behavior trying to change the contract text  
> just after having singed it. Trying to change the charter text at  
> the outset of the TC is akin to this.
> 4.	Therefore, I am against any change to the text of the normative  
> portion of the charter. The charter clarification should be limited  
> to be an acknowledgement of ambiguity in the actual text and the  
> accompanying footnote for the clarification of the actual text/ 
> wording.
> 5.	As the result, it is not plausible to change the text scores to  
> something else. We could put a footnote to explain what scores  
> really is, but not changing the normative text itself.
>
> I suggest ourselves to limit what we do against the charter to  
> footnotes. Modifying the charter text is not something that we  
> should do now. That is something you had to do in the past.