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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
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> W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
> Email: rexb@starbourne.com
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