Membership and voting details

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

TC:

I have had a few requests to clarify membership status details.  The 
full details are set in stone as per the OASIS TC Procedures at the 
following URL:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process_2005.04.15.letter.pdf

Here is an excerpt for your records.  In the event of a discrepancy 
between this email and the stated procedures on the OASIS site, the 
latter shall prevail (hehehe - I sounded almost like a lawyer)
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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 the 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 status. A 
Member shall
become eligible to vote in the TC when the requirements below are met.
Voting Member
A Member shall gain voting rights immediately after a probationary 
period, which
starts when the Member requests voting rights via the electronic 
collaborative tools,
and lasts until the close of the third meeting or 60 days following the 
request,
whichever comes first.
During the probationary period the Member must attend two of every three TC
meetings but cannot cast ballots; if attendance requirements are not 
met, the
Member shall not gain voting rights.
A Voting Member must be active in a TC to maintain voting rights. In TCs 
that hold
meetings, the Voting Member must attend two of every three Meetings, with
attendance recorded in the minutes. If a TC has adopted a standing rule 
to conduct
business only by electronic ballot, without Meetings, then a Voting 
Member must
participate in two of every three Specification Ballots with 
participation established
when a vote is recorded.
Voting Members who do not participate in two of every three Meetings (or
Specification Ballots as described above) shall lose their voting rights 
but remain as
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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. A Member may 
relinquish his voting
rights by sending a statement to that effect to the TC general email list.

Duane

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