I'd be much happier with 3 out of 4.
-----Original Message----- From: James Bryce
Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org] Sent: Fri 03-Jun-05 23:19
To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: Subject:
[chairs] TC attendance rules
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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