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Subject: Re: [humanmarkup] TC Business for this week-Oct. 21-27
Item 1: Yay Item 2: Yay Cordially, Joe Norris jwnorris@humanmarkup.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com> To: <humanmarkup@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 7:01 PM Subject: [humanmarkup] TC Business for this week-Oct. 21-27 > Hi Everyone, > > The TC website has been updated after our last meeting, Oct. 17. In > that meeting we only had a quorum by extending voting privileges to > Henrik Brameus, a prospective member whose 60 days period will pass > Oct. 23. So the decisions made in that meeting need to be confirmed. > The first decision was to allow motions, debate and votes to be > conducted on this list, and the first thing we need to do is to > confirm that decision. > > As Secretary I record the votes, so I would like to ask for a formal > vote to confirm the decision to allow the TC to conduct business > through this list. > > This is Item 1, so please reply to this post, indicating yay or nay, > yes or no to Item 1. > > The minutes are posted, and have also been sent to this list, so Item > 2 is to approve or disapprove the remainder of the decisions > contained in the minutes, all of which were voted affirmative without > dissent. > > Please indicate yay or nay, yes or no to Item 2, as well. > > That will take care of these items of business and get us caught up officially. > > I suggest that subsequent to receiving these votes and announcing the > result, we should immediately take up the issue of establishing a > Subcommittee for developing a Physical Markup Language as a subset of > the Human Markup Language, to be chaired by Sudhakar Gorti according > to his proposal and suggested timelines. For that we need a formal > motion, a second and then an acceptable period of discussion and > debate followed by a vote. I would appreciate it if I did not have to > draft the motion. > > Also, just so you know, it is usually a fairly standard practice that > the sitting officers, the chair and secretary in particular, do not > make motions themselves, although they are generally allowed to voice > their own opinions without prejudice. That is a fairly > straightforward precaution against someone using their official > position to unduly sway or influence committee decisions. > > So I am hoping that this list receives a motion for establishing a > Physical Markup Language Subcommittee with Sudhakar Gorti as the > chair. > > To continue making some progress with our work, I suggest that > someone also make a formal motion to establish official liaisons to > the OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects TC and the OASIS Web > Services Component Model TC. > > Those are two separate motions, unless we want to discuss, debate, > and vote on them together, which requires a motion to merge--too > much bother IMHO, unless you all want to allow multiple motions, but, > if you haven't been through procedural point-of-order harangues, take > my word for it, motions to merge and divide issues go on forever and > everyone always forgets the original motions by the time the dust > settles. So a word to the wise: it may seem like revisiting the > department of redundancy department, but it saves headaches to just > keep motions separate with one action per motion. > > And lastly I would really appreciate it if someone would do a bit of > research on the OASIS site, and maybe make some inquiries about > setting up a Joint Committee of the HumanMarkup, Topic Maps > Published Subjects and Web Services Component Model TCs. > > Almost all of this stuff is aimed at making things easier in the long > run, even if it is a pain in the carcass right now. > > Ciao, > Rex > -- > Rex Brooks > GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth > W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com > Email: rexb@starbourne.com > Tel: 510-849-2309 > Fax: By Request > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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