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Subject: Re: re voting
Postponing till Paris is fine with me. Jon Bosak wrote: > > [btusdin@mulberrytech.com:] > > | I suggest that we require some substantial % of the committee > | agree to the time period, what ever it is, and then let them set > | it. If they're doing something they feel under time pressure on > | and they are willing to live with the results, let them set a 12 > | hour limit. If they're working at about the pace this committee > | is, they'll probably agree on something closer to 5 days. If > | they're all graduates of the ISO school of decision-making they > | may choose 3 months. > > Nnnng... I think that 12 hours is going too far; this would > essentially allow a strong majority of the committee with good > email connections to simply disenfranchise the rest. > > [eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com:] > > | I'm not sure I understand what the whole issue is -- why not let > | the TC determine (perhaps at chartering time, perhaps later) what > | the ideal time is? A TC of which Jon Bosak is a member will surely > | adopt a 10 day rule, a TC of which Bill Smith is a member will > | have to go for 30 days, while a TC of which Terry Allen is a > | member will comfortably deal with 2 days. Why not just say "The > | voting period should be adopted by the TC as part of the standing > | rules"? > > I don't think that anything is wrong with this, but Terry and I > are agreeing (I think) that there is a minimum below which we are > not comfortable letting the time go; I think that he and I are > disagreeing only on what that minimum should be. > > Given the need to decide some things so that I can release the > first draft language of the bylaws as promised this weekend, I'd > like to just let this parameter remain undefined (and suitably > noted as such) until we can talk it through in Paris. Does anyone > have a problem with that? > > Jon -- Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: eduardo@eng.Sun.COM XML Technology Center | Phone: (650) 786-5498 Sun Microsystems Inc. | fax: (650) 786-5727
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