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Subject: RE: [xtm-wg] Nominations for invited guests
Thanks, Eric. I had the same interpretation. Steve At 09:57 10/01/01 -0600, Eric Freese wrote: >2) The charter says that Ontopia can have only one Participating Member >(3.5.2). In speaking about people who change employer, section 3.5.5 says: > >"A change of employer shall not automatically cancel such an individual's >access to meetings or ability to contribute work, however; such an >individual shall have the option of retaining the status of Advisory Member >unless otherwise decided by an absolute majority of the Participating >Members." > >I read that to say that 2 of the 3 Ontopians (apparently Kal and Ann based >on Steve P.'s note) can elect to retain Advisory Member status and have done >so. The sentence also says that this change does not cancel access to >meetings or ability to contribute work. > >However, the definition of Advisory Members (section 2.3) states: > >"Advisory Members may advise the TopicMaps.Org Authoring Group (AG), but >they may not directly participate in conference calls or face-to-face >meetings unless invited as guests (see section 3.6.3)." > >Having said this, in my opinion, Steve P., Kal and Ann (all having held >Participating Member status in the past) should be allowed to attend the >meetings. Ontopia, as an organization, shall have only 1 Participating >Member vote. A similar issue is how Ontopia employee votes are handled >within the subcommittees: This should be left to the chairs of the >individual subcommittees based on the rules within the charter (section 7). -- Steve Pepper, Chief Technology Officer <pepper@ontopia.net> Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Information Association) Ontopia AS, Maridalsveien 99B, N-0461 Oslo, Norway http://www.ontopia.net/ phone://+47 90827246/ To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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