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Subject: Re: Quorum required for good standing; was RE: [chairs] Info forchair setup of Kavi TC areas
| I think the OASIS process, regularly scheduled meetings, open | archives and minutes, ability of 10% of membership to veto a | Standard, has adequate safeguards to keep a small group from | hijacking a TC. Just remember that you can't take formal action without a quorum. The rules provide for this by extending Robert's to allow voting by email (if the TC votes, in a quorate meeting, to allow the chair to operate this way). So the right way to handle a group that has a hard time achieving a quorum is to adopt standing rules that authorize email voting and allow the inquorate group to automatically become a committee whose recommendations can, if necessary, be submitted to the whole TC by email. Note that in mail votes (including email), a majority is a majority of all of those casting a vote -- not necessarily a majority of the entire membership. This is exactly the same rule as when voting in a quorate meeting. To put it another way (I don't believe Robert's puts it this way, but I find it a useful way to think about it), in email a quorum is always present. Jon
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