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Subject: New TC Attendence Rules
Dear TC members, as you may have seen already, OASIS has revised the TC attendence rules. According to the new rules, a TC member looses voting rights after missing two TC meetings in a row, but also gets back voting rights after attending to two meetings in a row. Please note that voting rights are independent of TC membership. That means that a TC member that misses two meetings in a row looses voting rights, but remains a TC member. The new rules are in effetct since last Friday. The details can be found in the message below. Best regards Michael -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [members] TC Process change to attendance rules Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:39:40 -0700 From: James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org> To: members@lists.oasis-open.org, tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org To: OASIS Members Please be advised that the OASIS TC Process has been amended to simplify the rules for TC attendance and the effects on the voting rights of TC members. After the April 2005 TC Process revisions, TC chairs and members suggested that the revised rules in Section 2.4 could be made easier to administer. The OASIS staff and Board of Directors appreciate the input we received, and the Board directed its TC Process Committee to simplify the rule. The new text is set out at the bottom of this message. Please bear in mind that a TC member who fails to attend TC meetings (or certain ballots, in the case where those are counted) may lose his or her *voting* rights as a result. However, the attendance rule only toggles voting-versus-nonvoting status. Membership in the TC does not lapse due to absence. The change is effective today, 12 August 2005, and also will be posted to the TC Process page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php. REVISED TEXT: 2.4 TC Membership and Participation TC membership is per person, not per organization, and is not transferable from person to person. Observer An Eligible Person may become an Observer of a TC by registering as an Observer using the electronic collaboration tools provided by OASIS. If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization, the Primary Representative of that organization must be notified that the person has requested to become an Observer. The Observer is not a Member of the TC so has no attendance or participation requirements to maintain this status, other than to remain an Eligible Person. Member Any time after the first meeting, an Eligible Person shall become a Member of an existing TC by registering as a Member using the electronic collaboration tools provided by OASIS. If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization, the Primary Representative of that organization must confirm to the Chair and to the TC Administrator that the person may become a Member of the TC. Upon receipt by the Chair of confirmation by the Primary Representative the Member may begin participating, but shall not have voting rights. A Member shall become eligible to vote in the TC when the requirements below are met. Voting Member After the first Meeting of a TC, a Member shall gain voting rights at the close of the second consecutive Meeting attended by the Member or 60 days after the person becomes a Member, whichever comes first. A Voting Member must be active in a TC to maintain voting rights. In TCs that hold Meetings, a Voting Member who is absent from two consecutive Meetings (as recorded in the minutes) loses his or her voting rights at the end of the second Meeting missed. If a TC has adopted a standing rule to conduct business only by electronic ballot, without Meetings, then a Voting Member who fails to cast a ballot in two consecutive Specification Ballots loses his or her voting rights at the close of the second ballot missed. A Member who has lost his or her voting rights shall regain them for a TC that holds Meetings by attending two consecutive Meetings (as recorded in the minutes), thus regaining voting rights after the end of the second Meeting attended. A Member of a TC that does not hold Meetings may regain voting rights by making a request to the chair(s) to regain them, effective 60 days after the request. Voting Members who lose their voting rights remain Members of the TC. A warning may be sent to the Member by the Chair, but the loss of voting rights is not dependent on the warning. END OF TEXT Regards JBC ~ James Bryce Clark ~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS ~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- This email list is used solely by OASIS for official consortium communications. 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