RE: [chairs] Re: Chair involvement in signup of TC members

["Hal Lockhart" <hlockhar@bea.com>]

That's the list. I was replying to a comment posted to that list.

BTW, after making a request to join the list, I received no response or acknowledgement. I expected an error msg.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: Hal Lockhart
> Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [chairs] Re: Chair involvement in signup of TC members
> 
> 
>      Hal, if you mean the one accessible from the main 
> members page, that's 
> because the member comment period is over, so we turned it 
> off.   As with 
> most of our lists, "off" means the archives persist, but no 
> new messages 
> can be submitted.  Am I thinking of the wrong list?  Regards Jamie
> 
> At 09:22 PM 12/5/2004, Hal Lockhart wrote:
> >I can't seem to join the TC process comment list.
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> >
> >I think the reason is that under the new IPR policy the 
> Chair has to do a 
> >lot ot tracking of exactly when various parties joined and 
> left the TC, 
> >for example to determine if an organization has incurred a 
> Participant 
> >Obligation.
> >
> >Hal
> >
> >
> >Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> >As the TC process is reworked, I think it is important to 
> make sure the 
> >new processes have good reasons for every demand they place upon TC 
> >Chairs. One case where I do not see a good reason is in the 
> area of TC 
> >Membership (lines 259-269). Unless there are identified 
> reasons why a 
> >chair might refuse to allow a person to join the TC in this 
> capacity, why 
> >is the TC Chair involved? I can understand that in the past the 
> >collaboration tools required the Chairs deal with this, but 
> why should 
> >they going forward? I would suggest this section be 
> rewritten to have the 
> >collaboration tools that handle the Observer signup handle 
> the gathering 
> >of the Primary Representative's approval and automatically 
> notify the TC 
> >(& hence the Chair).
> >
> >Rich Thompson
> >OASIS WSRP TC Chair
> >IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / Yorktown Heights, NY
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