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Subject: Re: PAC: MT 10 (voting by mail)
(I believe that Terry is already out of email range for a while, but I didn't want to lose this point.) [tallen@sonic.net:] | | There is a reason that we have the concept of "business day" in | | English, and so far nothing beyond the three alternatives I've | | already suggested captures that. | | What do you see as the general problem? I run into this question of how to define a business day (or more to the point, a non-business day) in every standards process I participate in. Unless you're going to completely ignore the idea that some days don't count (which immediately leads you into insanities like allowing important deadlines to fall on Christmas day), you have to set up a policy for how to agree within the smaller or larger scope of any particular activity on what constitutes a holiday. I am totally convinced that this issue will have to be dealt with by the board; the question is whether it has to be solved as part of the present effort to set up a long-term TC structure. On reading through the draft bylaw language I sent out Monday, I can see why Terry thinks that we could just avoid this topic entirely. The only place I currently use "business day" in that draft is in pointing out that a meeting "may extend over several consecutive business days." If we get straight about what constitutes a meeting, we might be able to step around this mess for the moment *if* it doesn't become a necessary to the definition of a minimum period for voting. So if we accept Terry's insistence that the minimum voting period cannot be less than five to seven days, then maybe we don't need the concept of business days. But if we allow groups to operate on a zippier schedule that might have voting periods as short as two or three days, then it seems to me that the concept of "business day" is unavoidable. So that's where we are with this going into our meetings in Paris. Jon
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