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Subject: Re: [humanmarkup] Voting
Agreed. -Joseph Norris jwnorris@humanmarkup.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com> To: <humanmarkup@lists.oasis-open.org>; <cognite@zianet.com>; <clbullar@ingr.com>; <kurt@kurtcagle.net>; <mbatsis@netsmart.gr> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:53 AM Subject: [humanmarkup] Voting > Hi Everyone, > > In reviewing current and previous OASIS policies and procedures, and > having been notified by Karl Best yesterday that he cannot accept a > vote that includes ineligible participants, it is clear that invited > experts are not allowed to vote in TC issues unless those invited > experts have been personally okayed by the CEO, which we have not > requested yet. This misunderstanding is entirely my responsibility > and I apologize deeply for having misinformed you about that. There > really is no excuse for such lack of care and attention to detail. > > The fact that I was concentrating on getting this first specification > to the point where we could submit it as a TC specification for > public comment is likewise no excuse, but I do hope you can > understand and forgive me for this error. As I now understand it we > have two choices, vote again, or not count the votes of those who > were ineligible. Since our vote was unanimous for approval, I am > personally in favor of proceeding without a new vote, but I admit I > am biased in favor of getting to a point where we can legitimately > present our work and our overall effort before a larger audience in > the hope of attracting more participation and support. > > Also, by way of updating you on my progress with making proofreading > corrections, I stopped that process at the component Community > yesterday. Since I am doing both the Word and HTML documents > simultaneously, and both need to be proofread yet again to double > check that the grammar and typos were corrected accurately, I doubt I > can finish this, in the context of both elections and 8-hours a day > of WSIA-WSRP minus lunch break before Thursday, but I will try. > > I suggest that each of you, eligible or not, reply to this message > with your feelings and position on whether we should vote again or > discount the ineligible votes and proceed forward. For those of you > to whom invited expert status has been extended from our group, I > should inform you that we will have to make separate requests for > each of you to be granted official one-year memberships by Patrick > Gannon, but I think we should decide that specific issue in our usual > monthly meeting, which I will arrange after this hell week has gone > the way of all things. > > Again, my apologies, > Rex > -- > Rex Brooks > Starbourne Communications Design > 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 > http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> > >
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