SSTC Voting Status and Vacations...

[Heather_Hinton@tivoli.com]

Given that vacation season is now upon us, I thought that people might be
interested in known about the OASIS rules on "leaves of absence":

(g). Leaves of Absence.

                    Every member of an OASIS TC shall be entitled to at
least one leave of absence per
                    calendar year. During a leave of absence, a member
shall be exempt from the participation
                    criteria specified in the section of this Policy titled
"Termination of TC Membership." A first
                    leave of absence in any calendar year shall be obtained
automatically upon application to
                    the chair of the TC.

                    A TC member who has already been granted a leave of
absence during a calendar year may
                    apply for a maximum of one additional leave of absence
during the same year, but a second
                    leave of absence in a calendar year shall be granted
only upon formal resolution of the TC.

                    A member of a TC who has been granted a leave of
absence shall cease to be a member of
                    the TC and all of its subcommittees for the duration of
the leave. However, membership in
                    the TC and membership in any still-existing
subcommittee of the TC of which the same
                    person was a member at the beginning of the leave shall
resume when the leave ends.

                    The length of a leave of absence shall be specified in
advance by the member requesting it
                    and shall not exceed 45 days. A leave of absence shall
begin no earlier than seven days
                    after the date upon which the request was submitted to
the chair of the TC and shall end on
                    the date specified, or at the beginning of the first TC
meeting or subcommittee meeting
                    attended after the leave begins, or upon transmittal of
the first mail ballot returned after the
                    leave begins, whichever comes first. Time allocated for
a leave of absence but not used due
                    to early resumption of membership cannot be carried
over into another leave.

Notes on how to use this:
This will add a reasonable amount of administration to the chairs and the
secretary, so please don't use this if you are going to miss one meeting
for vacation reasons (for example). If you are going to miss several
meetings because you happen to live in a country that believes in
vacations, you can use this to ensure that you do not lose your voting
privileges while gone and recovering from 1000 pieces of email.

heather