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

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Hope I'm not muddying the waters too much, but a perhaps better way to
do this is would be to adopt a standing rule that *all* TC voting will
take place via email on the TC list. This would require that motions
be put into writing, all votes would be archived, and because you have
a minimum of five days for voting (see
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml#mail) all TC
members would have equal opportunity to cast ballots.

</karl>
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Karl F. Best
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karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:hal.lockhart@entegrity.com]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:12 PM
To: rights@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [rights] 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