FW: [members] TC Process change to attendance rules

["Breininger, Kathryn R" <kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com>]

Change and clarification of TC attendance rules...


Kathryn Breininger
Boeing Library Services
425-965-0182 phone





-----Original Message-----
From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 1:40 PM
To: members@lists.oasis-open.org; tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [members] TC Process change to attendance rules


     To:  OASIS Members

      Please be advised that the OASIS TC Process has been amended to 
simplify the rules for TC attendance and the effects on the voting
rights 
of TC members.

     After the April 2005 TC Process revisions, TC chairs and members 
suggested that the revised rules in Section 2.4 could be made easier to 
administer.   The OASIS staff and Board of Directors appreciate the
input 
we received, and the Board directed its TC Process Committee to simplify

the rule.  The new text is set out at the bottom of this message.
     Please bear in mind that a TC member who fails to attend TC
meetings 
(or certain ballots, in the case where those are counted) may lose his
or 
her *voting* rights as a result.  However, the attendance rule only
toggles 
voting-versus-nonvoting status.  Membership in the TC does not lapse due
to 
absence.
     The change is effective today, 12 August 2005,  and also will be 
posted to the TC Process page at 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php.

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 OF TEXT

Regards  JBC

~   James Bryce Clark
~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~   jamie.clark@oasis-open.org 


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