Re: [regrep] Result of Query Ballot

[Lisa Carnahan <lisa.carnahan@nist.gov>]

Hi Dan and TC members,

Back in June we agreed to a voting process for documents within the 
TC.  (The process for a TC voting to move a document to a vote by the OASIS 
membership ballot is well documented by OASIS procedures.)  The process we 
agreed to was that (1) for a ballot to be valid (Scott H.: your word is 
more appropriate than mine, the Query ballot is 'invalid' rather than 'not 
approved') a simple majority of TC members who have a voting status must 
vote and (2) of those voting, a simple majority must vote approve for the 
proposal to be approved.

The OASIS Procedure document does state that a TC member who has not voted 
in 80% of the ballots in a 90 day period are removed from the committee - 
so there is a penalty for not voting.

Since we are somewhat on new territory here (I did not anticipate apathy(?) 
in our votes), we must define a process that is fair for handling invalid 
ballots.  I propose that any proposal that results in an 'invalid' ballot 
should be resubmitted to the TC (with changes or not) and re-balloted.  If 
we have another 'invalid' ballot....hopefully we won't cross that bridge.

To those that did not ballot the Query Proposal: are there any 
comments/changes that would serve to have you vote?  A few of you have 
mentioned to me privately that you did not have time to read the proposal 
and therefore did not feel comfortable voting.  If you are given more time 
in a re-ballot, will you vote?  Is five days not enough time?

I share Dan's opinion that obviously, the Query Chapter has to be updated 
to reflect the changes to the RIM.  We must come out of the face-to-face 
with these changes in place.

Dan: do you wish to re-submit the Query Proposal for a TC Ballot?

--lisa


At 09:25 AM 10/24/2001 -0700, you wrote:

>Lisa,
>
>I am very puzzled and disturbed by the process. Somehow not voting is being
>counted as disapprove. That is, nine people did not vote/care and therefore
>they have disapproved the Query proposal?!
>
>It will be totally wrong for V2 to be published with the existing Object
>Query Management chapter. The chapter is outdated and, therefore, wrong. If
>the Query proposal is not approved, V2 should be published with the chapter
>removed.
>
>I am new to the OASIS process, but I am familiar with the OMG process. With
>the OMG process, a quorum is established not as half of all voting members,
>but as half of all consistently-participating voting members, which
>protects active members and the process as a whole.
>
>Regards,  Dan
>
>Metadata Management Technology and Standard
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>
> 
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>                     Lisa 
> Carnahan 
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> Query Ballot
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>The Query Proposal is not approved because the number of TC members casting
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>a ballot was not a simple majority of TC voting members.  We agreed as a TC
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>that a simple majority must cast ballots for the vote to be valid.  We
>needed 9 ballots for the vote to be valid.  The results are as follows:
>
>Bruce Bargmeyer  - did not vote
>Kathryn Breininger - approve
>Dan Chang - approve
>Joe Chiusano - abstain
>Suresh Damodaran  -did not vote
>Anne Fischer - approve
>Sally Fuger - did not vote
>Len Gallagher - approve
>Jong Kim - did not vote
>Joel Munter - did not vote
>Farrukh Najmi - disapprove
>Sanjay Patil - did not vote
>Neal Smith -disapprove
>Nikola Stojanovic - did not vote
>Prasad Yendluri - did not vote
>Yutaka Yoshida - did not vote
>
>If I have incorrectly represented your action, please let me know ASAP.
>
>--lisa
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