Re: [humanmarkup] Voting

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks, Joe,

That makes it unanimous and I will dot all the eyes and cross the 
tees tomorrow morning. And we can get ready to start on the next 
round of discussions.

Ciao,
Rex

At 3:41 PM -0500 11/6/02, Joseph Norris wrote:
>Agreed.
>
>-Joseph Norris
>jwnorris@humanmarkup.org
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>From: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com>
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>Subject: [humanmarkup] Voting
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>>  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
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>>  http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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