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Subject: Re: [stdsreg] committee charter


Minor comments below in italics.



"Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> on 02/20/2002 02:59:14 PM

To:   stdsreg@lists.oasis-open.org
cc:

Subject:  [stdsreg] committee charter


On the StdsReg concall earlier today we discussed the committee charter
and came to general agreement on a few changes. Since this involves a
changes to a written document, which is difficult to agree to over the
phone, and because this is an important vote, we agreed to continue this
discussion and to vote on this via email.

Appended below is the text of the charter. Please use this list for
discussion for the next few days. Next Tuesday 26th I will send out a
final version for vote, and voting will conclude at the start of the
next committee meeting, 5 March at 12 noon EST. (For those of you not on
the call, the only substantial changes to the straw man proposal were to
the Goal and the voting section of the Process.)

</karl>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org




Standards Registry Committee (StdsReg) Charter
==============================================

Goal:
--------
The goal of the Standards Registry Committee is to develop
specifications that will promote the exchange of information between
organizations developing standards and other consensus documents, and
make more coherent and systematic information about these organizations'
activities available to the public in order to
* increase collaboration between the organizations;
* encourage the development of interoperable specifications;
* increase participation in standards efforts; and
* encourage adoption of completed specifications by users.


Deliverables:
--------------
The Standards Registry Committee will create the following:

1. A simple specification for metadata that describes both in-progress
and completed technical work created by various organizations. The metadata
should be
flexible enough to describe the work of most organizations, and simple
enough
that it can be implemented at very little cost.

2. Selection of a taxonomy that can be used to classify each of the
specifications.

3. A recommendation for how standards registries, both current and
future, can be used together to allow common searching across the
registries hosted by various organizations.

The committee's goal is to create the above deliverables in three to six
months.

Existing work should be used where possible and appropriate, and
completed work should be in conformance with existing international
standards as appropriate.

The deliverables of the committee will be considered public property and
may be freely used by anyone.


Process
-------
The StdsReg committee should be run in a very lightweight manner, with
openness and cooperation as the guiding philosophy. The committee chair
will conduct the committee according to the general principles of
Robert's Rules, but the actual rules of Robert's will be used only when
necessary.

The committee chair will be elected by majority vote of the committee
members. The chair can be removed by 2/3 vote of the committee.

The committee will make decisions whenever possible by reaching
consensus during meetings. For decisions where consensus cannot be
reached a vote will be taken via the email list, with a decision
requiring a simple majority of those voting.

The final specification will be adopted by 2/3 vote of the committee.

Membership in the StdsReg Committee is open to any person who can and
will contribute to the deliverables of the committee. Active
participation is expected. With the exception of the committee's first
meeting a person cannot vote at the first committee meeting he attends
or in his first email ballot.

All activities of the committee will be publicly viewable. All meeting
minutes and draft documents should be posted to a publicly accessible
web page, and all mail list discussions will be publicly archived.
Voting may take place in meetings and via email.


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