[rights] Request for Agenda Item on Rights Concall Wed October 2

[Hal Lockhart <hal.lockhart@entegrity.com>]

Title: Request for Agenda Item on Rights Concall Wed October 2

I intend to make the following motion at the next RL TC concall. I would like a slot on the agenda to discuss and vote on it.

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Fair Vote Procedure

Whereas the members of the Rights Language TC have multiple important obligations and responsibilities, outside the work of the TC including business travel and other meetings, conferences, etc.

And, whereas the TC has been unable to achieve consensus on many issues and has been forced to proceed by simple majority vote in many cases.

And whereas, decisions on the important work of the TC merits due reflection and an opportunity for every member to vote who wishes to,

The following procedure, called the Fair Voting Rule, is adopted.

For any vote on a major issue of TC scope, policy, establishment of subcommittees, agreement on completion of any work items, specifically including:

·       Agreement to accept any document as a work product of this TC
·       Agreement to submit or convey any document from this committee to any other group or organization either inside or outside OASIS

·       Agreement to make any document available for public review.

The following procedure must be followed.
1.      Notice of the intention to hold such a vote must be given via the RLTC main mailing list (rights@lists.oasis-open.org) at least 7 days in advance of the meeting at which the vote is to be taken.

2.      The vote must occur within the scheduled hours of the meeting
3.      If the meeting is two hours or longer in duration, such as a face to face meeting, the time of the vote must be announced, not later than the beginning of the session on that day and the vote must take place within 30 minutes following the announced time.

4.      The Chair is empowered to curtail debate and call the question if necessary in order to meet either of these time constraints.

Any vote to alter, amend, revoke or suspend this rule must follow Fair Voting Rule.
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This is not intended as an implied criticism of any individual or any past events. I am simply trying to insure that people like myself who are not able to work on the RLTC full time are able to apply our limited time to participating in the most important discussions and votes of the TC and to give the most important issues the consideration and study they deserve. I am not trying to add to the red tape, so I have specifically excluded routine matters like acceptance of meeting minutes from this procedure.

Hal