Ann, Dawn
Much thanks for the clarification, and thanks for your contributions Fred.
regards, Frederick
Frederick Hirsch
Nokia
On Sep 3, 2013, at 7:17 PM, ext Commissioner IPC wrote:
Many thanks Dawn -- I echo your remarks. Fred is an amazing team player, and I am indebted to him for all his efforts at trying to move this forward. We could stick to our monthly meetings and move at a snail's pace, or we could augment those meetings
with some action in between. I vote for the latter. Rest assured that everything will be brought back to the main TC for consideration.
Kind regards,
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Commissioner
Frank and Frederick:
You have misunderstood Fred's statement. He is talking about the co-Chairs co-operating on a useful agenda to bring forward to support an earlier subgroup meeting. A meeting that is open to all the TC members.
Please take into account that Fred is an assistant to the Commissioner of Information and Privacy of Ontario. You may understand that his official work life involves jargon that you would not regularly use in the corporate world. Don't pick on
him, guys :) He is not talking about approval of specifications, as you likely know. In no way, we would imply approval of standards material by any subset of TC members, including this TC's co-Chairs. Further, Fred's and our desire is strictly to accelerate
the pace of the committee's work, not to exclude anyone or to violate OASIS standards' processes. As you well know, the subgroup mechanism is sometimes used in standards committees to discuss approaches to work. Then any worthwhile discussions or outcomes
would be taken back to the main TC for consideration.
Cheers,
Dawn.
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