Pal,
I only
meant that I think Jim Webber is technically still a member of the committee
according to the procedures, which is what has to count if it comes to formal
vote. The reminder requirement does impose an administrative load on the chair
if it is imposed strictly, and providing it doesn't cause the quorum to become
impossible due to padding with inactive members, there's probably little harm in
letting it slide with occasional cleanups, as you did in June. But then
such people can pop out of the woodwork if there is a formal vote. In fact, of
course, Jim re-emerged at least for the last weeks phone
call.
Of
course, with luck we will all reach consensus this evening
anyway.
Peter
-----Original Message----- From:
Pal Takacsi-Nagy [mailto:pal.takacsi@bea.com] Sent: 10 October 2001
21:08 To: Peter Furniss; Mark Little; btp Cc:
mark@arjuna.com Subject: RE: [business-transaction] RE: This
Thursday's teleconference
All
right. I thought I was doing my job (being a chair) reasonably, although I
have to admit that I did not adhere to the last detail of the OASIS rules. If
you think that I am not appropriate for this job I am happy to resign
immediately. We can discuss this tomorrow.
Pal
I
believe the oasis rules say that people don't get dropped unless they have
received a warning from the chair. Has anyone been warned recently
?
Peter
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OK, we should vote on this tomorrow. One
procedural point. According to my records the following people are not
currently voting members of the committee (even by the most lose
interpretation of the OASIS rules, i.e. we count only face-to-face
meetings):
Jim Webber (HP) - did not attend the last f2f
meetings, did not dial in on subsequent teleconferences and as of
yesterday unsubsribed from the mailing list
Eric Newcomer (IONA) - never attended a f2f
neither called in for a teleconference
Alex Ceponkus - not an OASIS
member
Bill Pope - not an OASIS
member
Pal
Given the discussions generated over the last few weeks about the
shape/content and future of any BTP specification, and the delays to any
attempts to adopt, we the undersigned wish to call a formal vote on the
following issue, to be resolved at the next teleconference on 11th of
October 2001:
The Technical Committee confirms the scope as determined by
the last San Jose face-to-face in late July and the subsequent quorate
and minuted teleconference of 16 August, namely:
To define the interoperable messages to be sent between
initiators and the factory, terminators and coordinators/composers,
enrollers and superiors, superiors and inferiors (including the roles
and responsibilities of sub-coordinators and sub-composers in a
transaction tree), and the relationship of contexts and replies to
application messages, plus facilities for recovery including message
redirection, and compounding capability to allow one-shot optimization
and one-wire topology. A concrete binding to SOAP and
SOAP-with-attachments is included. Partial role-based conformance is
defined.
and further resolves to close discussion on issues of scope
in the interests of rapid adoption of the Committee
Specification.
Mark Little (HP), Jim Webber (HP), Eric Newcomer (IONA),
Pyounguk Cho (IONA), Alex Ceponkus, Alastair Green (Choreology), Peter
Furniss (Choreology), Bill Pope, James Tauber (Bowstreet)
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