IMPORTANT: CREATING A BALLOT FOR NEXT

[Juan Carlos Cruellas <cruellas@ac.upc.edu>]

Dear all,

At yesterday's meeting Ezer reported that the last comments on the 
Visible Signature Profile would be resolved during the first half of 
this week, which would lead to have a version ready for being voted as 
Committe Draft during this week.

We would like to move this forward at the next call, by  making a motion 
for opening an electronic ballot or just voting at the meeting (both 
options are possible under certain conditions). I copy the rules 
governing the approval of a Committe Draft below:

---> RULES

"Full Majority Vote" is a TC vote in which more than 50% (more than 
half) of the Voting Members vote "yes", regardless of the number of 
Voting Members present in the meeting. Abstentions are not counted. For 
example, in a TC in which there are 20 Voting Members, at least 11 
Voting Members must vote "yes" for a motion to pass.


*3.1 Approval of a Committee Draft

*The TC may at any stage during development of a specification approve 
the specification as a Committee Draft. The approval of a Committee 
Draft shall require a Full Majority Vote of the TC. The TC may approve a 
specification, revise it, and re-approve it any number of times as a 
Committee Draft.


<--END RULES

The figures of our TC are as follow: 9 voting members (including 
chairs). This makes that for approving the Committee Draft we need 5 
"yes" votes.

Voting members: Marta Cruellas, Pim van der Eijk, Ezer Farhi, Detlef 
Huehnlein, Andreas Kuehne, Konrad Lanz, Clemens Orthacker, Stefan Drees, 
Juan Carlos Cruellas.

What is really crucial is that we get quorum next Monday's meeting for 
at least approving the motion of opening the ballot. Can we kindly ask 
you to make an effort for attending that meeting?

Thank you very much in advance.

Juan Carlos.