RE: [stdsreg] call for vote: StdsReg charter

[Ketchell John <john.ketchell@cenorm.be>]

Approved

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 14:31
> To: stdsreg@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [stdsreg] call for vote: StdsReg charter
> 
> 
> StdsReg committee:
> 
> Attached is the proposed charter for the Standards Registry committee,
> which incorporates suggestions for changes that I have received in the
> past week.
> 
> I am now calling for votes to approve the charter. Please 
> send your vote
> to this mail list. The majority of votes cast on the list 
> will determine
> the outcome. Votes will be accepted up until the start of next week's
> committee meeting (5 March, 12 noon EST); I will announce the 
> results at
> the meeting.
> 
> </karl>
> =================================================================
> Karl F. Best
> OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
> +1 978.667.5115 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
> organization's 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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