Formal Request for Special Majority Vote

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Ram:

Can you please set up a special majority vote to allow voting members of the
SOA RC TC to cast a ballot to determine whether or not they wish the
Committee Specification to become a version 1.0 OASIS Standard?  The TC
voted to proceed to a Special Majority Vote during our meeting this morning.
The minutes are located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/soa-rm/download.php/20562/SOA-R
M%20Minutes-Oct-4-2006.doc

Background:

The Ballot to advance the Reference Model for SOA to become a full OASIS
Standard received 89 positive votes, the second highest number of positive
votes anyone on the TC can recall being cast to support a standard.  The
single no vote came from Avaya Inc.  The sole statement provided by Wu Chou
was:

"Too vague and confusing, e.g. things which are not SOA can be mapped into
this and claim they conform to this SOA model."

This statement reaffirms the strong need for a reference model for SOA.
Even if they disagree (which is perfectly permissible), a reference model
for SOA would allow them to clarify what they mean by SOA by using the model
as a point of reference and noting departures from it.  That is the intended
use of any reference model.

The TC reached out to Avaya twice, once receiving positive confirmation that
their message was received and was going to be forwarded to their primary
rep, and requested that a representative of Avaya, Inc. please help the TC
understand their position by providing further information during the
meeting scheduled for Wednesday October 4, 2006 or notify us that this time
did not work and arrange another meeting.  We also notified Avaya that in
the event, they did not clarify their negative ballot, we would conclude
that they are not going to do so.  The contents of the second communication
to Wu Chou, the primary representative of Avaya, Inc., are available here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/soa-rm/email/archives/200610/ms
g00024.html 

The TC and community overwhelmingly support the current Committee
Specification which is in use by a vast number of architects.  Accordingly,
holding up it's progress to becoming a version 1.0 OASIS Standard is not in
our best interest.

Duane

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