RE: [legalxml-sc] Discrepancies in membership lists, voting rights and revenues

["Scott McGrath" <scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org>]

John,

I'll get a full reply on each member you are "missing", but you should know
that several are known to me and our data is legitimate - examples of that
are Dan Greenwood who, while was performing as chair, had no legitimate
OASIS member account from ~ March 2006-January 2007.  New York State Office
of the Court did not indicate on their Member Agreement that they desired to
allocate funds-- we all can guess their intention, but the accounting
process follows documentation, not intentions ;-)

Scott...

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Messing [mailto:jmessing@law-on-line.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:06 AM
>To: Patrick Gannon; James Clark; Dee Schur
>Cc: legalxml-sc@lists.oasis-open.org; legalxml-chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [legalxml-sc] Discrepancies in membership lists, voting rights and
>revenues
>
>Patrick et al:
>
>LegalXML is in the midst of an election for at large representatives
>using a voting formula that was worked out between the secretary of the
>steering committee and OASIS staff last year.
>
>In reviewing the lists of members compared with the voting list I noted
>that there were the following entities and individuals who were listed
>as eligible to vote but whose membership fees were never reported to
>LegalXML and therefore presumably whose fees were not credited to our
>available funds either during 2006 or as budgetary funds for 2007.
>
>They were the following entity members:
>
>EdiEyes
>New York State Office of Court Administration DoT
>Thales eSecurity
>Thomson Corporation
>
>The following individuals fall into the same category:
>
>Chester Ensign
>Steffen Frederiks
>Eileen Wood
>
>I also found one reportedly paid entity member who did not appear as an
>eligible voter for voting purposes on the ballot:
>
>Tata Consultancy Services , IN
>
>Since reporting these discrepancies to Dee and Cathie Mayo yesterday, I
>recalled from memory the following active members who have not been put
>on any lists and therefore do not appear to have paid fees, because they
>were inadvertently deleted through KAVI during the year and apparently
>were never reinstated despite requests to do so.
>
>Dan Greenwood, MIT, Chair of the eContracts TC
>
>Dave Marvit, Fujitsu, member of the steering committee from the
>eContracts TC.
>
>I roughly estimate that as much as 10% of our revenues may have been
>underreported as a result, which may be sorely needed by the EFTC for
>publicizing its standard and both it and eNotary for consultancy work.
>
>In addition, we have had two false starts in our elections and there is
>a current election now in progress.
>
>It is my intention to have the SC consider its various options at the
>January 10 meeting. I request that staff be available to address these
>concerns at that time. I understand that these omissions were likely
>unintentional, but I believe the situation needs to be rectified at the
>earliest possible time.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Best regards.