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Subject: RE: [emergency] CAPv1.2 CS & Standard Approval Ballots
Rex, Right now with 6 members who have not voted, the current 10 YES votes only total 50% of the eligible 20 Voting Members. The paragraph below says at least 2/3 of Voting Members must vote YES, meaning to me that 14 YES votes (70% of the 20 Voting Members) is needed to approve the CS and Standard Vote request. As far as NO votes, you can have no more than 25% of Voting Members, which to me means it would take 6 NO votes to reject approval regardless of the YES votes. So as it stands right now, unless 4 more members vote YES, this approval vote will fail. It does seem below no matter what happens today, we can vote by the same Special Majority Vote Rules above at our meeting tomorrow to withdraw the CS from the Standards Vote - but again - we would need good attendance on the call tomorrow and 14 people would have to vote to withdraw it. That's the way I read it anyway. Does it go on to say we can then modify it and revote on it as a CS without a Review Period, since that is not mentioned? Gary Timm -----Original Message----- From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 3:06 PM To: emergency TC lists Oasis; ARTHUR C III CTR DISA JITC BOTTERELL Subject: [emergency] CAPv1.2 CS & Standard Approval Ballots Hi Everyone, Because today is a national holiday and there is a good chance that many of the voting members of the TC may not be getting their email until after the ballots close today, there is good reason for concern that we will find ourselves in a difficult situation tomorrow if the ballot closes and the vote results remain unchanged. So I went to the OASIS Technical Committee Handbook http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCHandbook/OASISTCHandbook.htm and did some research that took me to the TC Process Document Section 3.4 Approval of an OASIS Standard http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2008-06-19.php#OASISstandar d where paragraph 14 states: *The TC that originated the specification may resolve by Special Majority Vote to withdraw the proposed specification at any point after it is submitted to the TC Administrator for administrative processing and before the start of the voting period.* No part of the submission may be changed or altered in any way after being submitted to the TC Administrator, including by Errata or corrigenda. Errata, corrigenda or other changes to a Committee Specification are not permitted after its submission for OASIS Standard approval; if changes are required the Committee Specification must be withdrawn by the TC, edited, re-approved as a Committee Specification, and then may be resubmitted as a proposed OASIS Standard. Proposed changes of any kind to a Committee Draft or Committee Specification may be maintained by a Technical Committee, but do not have any approval status until incorporated into a revised Committee Draft or Committee Specification. Special Majority Vote is defined in TC Process Document Section 1 Definitions http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2008-06-19.php#definitions "Special Majority Vote" is a TC vote in which at least 2/3 (two thirds) of the Voting Members vote " yes" and no more than 1/4 (one fourth) of the Voting Members vote "no". These numbers are based on the total number of Voting Members. Abstentions are not counted. For example, in a TC in which there are 30 Voting Members, at least 20 Voting Members must vote "yes" for a motion to pass; but if 8 or more vote "no" then the motion fails. All Special Majority Votes must be conducted via electronic ballot by the OASIS TC Administrator. I believe this means that we can, at our regularly scheduled TC meeting tomorrow resolve by Special Majority Vote to withdraw the proposed specification even if the ballot measures currently set to close today are approved. Cheers, Rex -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-898-0670 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php ...................................................................... The information contained in this communication may be confidential or legally privileged and is intended only for the recipient named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately advise the sender and delete the original and any copies from your computer system.
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