Re: [regrep] Results of ballot

["Farrukh S. Najmi" <farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com>]

Breininger, Kathryn R wrote:
> Dear TC Reg/Rep,
> Unfortunately, we did not have enough ballots returned on the Profile
> for Web Ontology ballot to get a majority.  There are a number of
> factors that may have contributed to this including vacations, change in
> e-mail addresses, and the recent problems with OASIS mail servers.  We
> will need to set up another ballot, but I will need consensus from the
> TC first that we should do this. I would like to bring this up at our
> next telecon on Aug 31st and get the approval from all of you to set up
> another ballot; this needs to be documented in the minutes as well.
> Please plan to attend our TC meeting on August 31st so that we can get
> quorum for an official business meeting, and document our decision to
> resubmit the ballot.  
> 

+1 on Kathryn's call for making every effort to attend the August 31st
meeting.

Since the motion to open a ballot is a recurring issue, I propose we
have a motion in our next meeting to adopt a standing rule to allow this
motion to be made on the TC’s general email list according to OASIS rules:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.13

"A motion to open an electronic ballot must be made in a TC meeting
unless the TC has adopted a standing rule to allow this motion to be
made on the TC’s general email list. When such a rule has been adopted,
motions made on the mail list must also be seconded and discussed on
that list."

This would allow us to initiate ballots by emails based motions in future.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Farrukh

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