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Subject: Re: [chairs] RE: TAB Charter proposal


Chairs:

The OASIS Board has approved this change in the TAB charter.

-Karl



Karl Best wrote:
> TC Chairs:
> 
> The OASIS Techncial Advisory Board (TAB) has requested that the OASIS 
> Board revise their charter, and as the requested revision concerns the 
> OASIS TCs the Board would like to give the TC chairs the opportunity to 
> comment.
> 
> The TAB's current charter (see http://www.oasis-open.org/tab/#charter) 
> is to "advise the OASIS Board of Directors (Board) on matters related to 
> supporting the technical agenda of OASIS". The TAB would in addition 
> like to be able to work with the TCs in areas listed below.
> 
> The Board will be considering this proposal at their next meeting on 21 
> November; please send me your comments by 18 November so that I can 
> compile and submit them to the Board.
> 
> thanks
> -Karl
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Gutentag [mailto:eduardo.gutentag@sun.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 6:51 PM
> To: oasisboard@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: OASIS TAB
> Subject: [oasisboard] TAB Charter proposal
> 
> 
> Dear OASIS Board,
> 
> Over the past few months, since our first meeting on June 17, the TAB
> has been struggling with the fact that our charter does not allow us
> to contact TCs directly and all our communications must pass through
> the Board of Directors. While this is understandable inasmuch as the
> TAB is a Committee of the Board, and the Board envisions it only as an
> advisory committee with no powers of execution, it does make some of
> our efforts ineffective. In that spirit, we would like to propose to the
> Board a small modification of the charter, which would allow the TAB to
> get in direct contact with Technical Committees in the fulfillment of
> its charter, viz. the addition of a section 1.2.iv such that section 1.2
> would now read:
> 
> -------
> 2.Support the OASIS technical process
> 
>   i. Support technical committees by providing review and guidance on
>      scope and deliverables of technical work
>  ii. Recommend areas of collaboration within OASIS technical
>      committees and with other outside standards activities
> iii. Recommend guidelines and other processes that will support the
>      OASIS technical process e.g. development of standard templates,
>      best practices, tools and infrastructure
>  iv. Communicate directly with the appropriate technical committess as
>      required to carry out the activities described above.
> -------
> 
> (The current charter can be found at 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/tab/#charter)
> 
> Please note the reduced scope of the requested modification - it would 
> touch only section 1.2
> 
> This would also be a good opportunity for the Board to change the word 
> "within" in 1.2.ii with "between", since that section supposedly refers 
> to collaboration between TCs rather than within TCs.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo Gutentag               |         e-mail: eduardo.gutentag@Sun.COM
> Web Technologies and Standards |         Phone:  +1 510 550 4616 x31442
> Sun Microsystems Inc.          |         1800 Harrison St. Oakland, CA 
> 94612
> W3C AC Rep / OASIS TAB Chair
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =================================================================
> Karl F. Best
> Vice President, OASIS
> +1 978.667.5115 x206
> karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org
> 
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-- 
=================================================================
Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
+1 978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org



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