Possible change to TC voting rules - input requested

[Jeff Mischkinsky <jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com>]

Dear OASIS Member,

The OASIS Board Process Sub-Committee would like your input
on a possible rule change regarding TC voting.

Currently any person who is a TC member can be a voting member. Since
eligibility is determined on an individual basis, not an
organizational basis, an organization can have an unlimited number of
voters (up to the number of members it has on that TC).  Some
concerns have been raised about this being fair, being a drain on
resources of those organizations, and making it harder to manage
quorum. Other concerns have been raised that reducing voting power on
TCs could reduce participation.

The options we are evaluating include:
(a) Leaving the rules as currently written;
(b) Capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC members
     from a single organization to 1, 2 or 3;
(c) Capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC members
     from a single organization based on membership class (e.g.,  
sponsors
     might get 3 versus contributors having 2).

The voting rights of individual and associate members in TCs would
not be changed by these proposals.

Please send your comments to:
  [oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org] by 20 November, 2006.

Thank you,
   Jeff Mischkinsky, Chair; for the OASIS Board Process Sub-Committee

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