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Subject: TC attendance rules
- From: James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
- To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 06:19:56 -0700
One area where we have some clear early feedback on
the April 2005 TC Process revisions is in the area of meeting
attendance. Under the current rule -- omitting the special case of
TCs who have no meetings, and only count ballots -- a TC member can lose
their voting rights by missing meetings:
A Voting Member must be active in a
TC to maintain voting rights. In TCs that hold meetings, the Voting
Member must attend two of every three Meetings, with attendance recorded
in the minutes. * * * Voting Members who do not participate in two
of every three Meetings * * *shall lose their voting rights but remain as
Members of the TC. A warning may be sent to the Member by the Chair, but
the loss of voting rights is not dependent on the warning. * * *
[1]
We're actively discussing two changes in response to early
feedback.
First, the new rule -- which takes away voting
rights after two proximate absences without an explicit notice -- is
harsher than the prior rule [2], which included a notice prior to the
status change. Several have suggested this is too harsh.
Possibilities include
-- reinstating the notice (that is, you cease to vote
after 2 misses out of 3 PLUS a notice), or
-- lowering the bar (such as, you cease to vote after
3 misses out of 4).
The Board's process subcommittee is reviewing this issue in June, and
your comments are welcome.
Second, instead of requiring that a person who has
lost voting rights explicitly re-apply, we are considering making the
simpler default assumption that anyone who loses their vote should be
automatically re-queued to re-gain it. That would allow us to
simply the rosters, and delete the superfluous role "probationary
voting member". All TC members would either be "voting
members", or simply "members" who will reacquire their
vote when their attendance again merits it. Again, your comments
are welcome.
Regards JBC
~ James Bryce Clark
~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
[1]
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.4
[2]
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process_2003.09.18.php#termination
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