results of AVDL voting; action required

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

AVDL TC:

The voting to approve the AVDL specification as an OASIS has just 
concluded. There were sufficient affirmative votes to approve the 
specification, but there was also one negative vote. The OASIS TC 
Process requires that in this situation the TC decide how to handle to 
the negative vote.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standard (second to 
last paragraph):

"If at the end of the voting period at least 15 percent of the voting 
membership has voted to approve the proposed standard, then if no votes 
have been cast to disapprove the proposed standard, it shall become an 
OASIS Standard immediately following the end of the voting period. 
However, if negative votes amounting to less than 15 percent of the 
voting membership have been cast, the TC will be notified of the 
negative votes, after which the TC shall have 30 days to take one of the 
following actions by resolution: (a) request OASIS TC Administration to 
approve the specification as submitted despite the negative votes; (b) 
withdraw the submission entirely; or (c) submit an amended 
specification, in which case the amended submission shall be considered 
as if it were a new submission, except that information regarding 
previous votes and any disposition of comments received in previous 
votes shall accompany the amended submission."

The negative vote (and comment) was submitted by Fujitsu:

"We had to vote against to approve the specification at this point, 
since we didn't get appropriate information regarding IPR from co-chairs 
of the TC. We would like to make sure no one in the TC believe there is 
any essential patent or patent application to implement this specification."


The AVDL TC must respond to me within 30 days to tell me which of the 
above actions you wish to take.

-Karl



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Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
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