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Subject: RE: [chairs] OASIS Organizational Voting is Somewhat Absurd?


One approach:
  • Minimum percentage of approving votes required from the voters who belong to topically-related groups.  Maybe a higher percentage than the 10% or 15% currently in effect, since those voting would have a higher level of interest in the specification at hand.  This could increase the probability that the spec proposal is actually reviewed by people qualified and interested in reviewing it.
  • Some kind of "veto power" by any of the regularly voting members.  A "no" vote from any of the regular broad pool of voters might trigger a higher level of acceptance required by the topically-related votes.
We certainly want to avoid OASIS rubberstamping randomly-generated specifications, akin to what occurred here:
 
 
Seraphim Larsen
DITA TC secretary

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From: Duane Nickull [mailto:dnickull@adobe.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:53 AM
To: Wachob, Gabe; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [chairs] OASIS Organizational Voting is Somewhat Absurd?

Does anyone else feel this way?

 

I agree that it may be suboptimal.  Do you have any concrete plans or suggestions for our perusal?  While voting to approve something you haven’t read is a relatively hollow gesture, it has to be balanced against the other end of the spectrum whereby a group of three members could get together, have a FUDfest and create some meaningless specification and get it approved as an OASIS standard.  This lack of scrutiny by all of us weakens the perception and credibility of OASIS as a credible standards development organization.

 

I would be interested in hearing concrete proposals and am open to considering a new model if others are keen too.

 

Duane 



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