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Subject: Bylaws update - comments
Regarding the deletion of lines 33-57 in the Draft OASIS Bylaws Update distributed on 8/24/2020:
The above mentioned deletion leaves OASIS with no mission other than some vague fluffy statements with no real meaning.
It does not delimit in any way what
the focus of the organization is.
Specifically, it never states whose
market needs and directions it talks about, nor what kinds of
standards, specs, code, policies or methodologies it will
develop and refine -- and therefore by implication what kinds it
will not.
It provides the organization with no
coherent goals; it gives the organization no reason to reject a
proposal for the development and refinement of standards related
to the classification of pornography acts, for example; or a
proposal for the development of methodologies for untraceable
murder activities; or why a TC should not facilitate the
adoption of socially damaging artifacts like bullying or revenge
humiliation. And even if it were argued that there are other
reasons why the organization could reject such activities, the
fact remains that lines 26-32 of the proposed bylaws lack all
significance. Unless indeed the purpose of this change is to say
that OASIS will now engage in the development of tennis
standards, winter crops methodologies, or insecticide dispersal
policies.
By declaring implicitly that the
current focus on structured information standards is to be
abandoned, while not declaring what the alternative(s) would be,
OASIS becomes a purposeless, drifting, formless amoeba of an
organization whose only goal is, apparently, to survive.
If that were to become the case I would immediately request that my name be withdrawn from the roster of members.
Eduardo Gutentag
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