OASIS STANDARD BALLOT RESULT

Colleagues

The ballot has now closed and the final votes cast were 60 (82% of total votes cast) in favour and 13 (18% of total votes cast) against. That means we have Conditional Approval according to the TC Process Handbook and now have 3 choices as shown below on how to move forward. The purpose of the TC call next Wednesday will be to review the outcome of the ballot, the comments raised and decide on which of the 3 options we wish to follow. For those of you who will not be able to make the TC call it would be very helpful if you could post a note to the TC list before the call setting out any views you have on the outcome of the ballot and your preference of the way forward.

One of the major comments raised during the ballot concerned the Conformance Clauses and you will find the current guidance on these at http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCHandbook/ConformanceGuidelines.html. If you have chance please take a look as we need to reflect on this guidance in making our decisions.

Regards

John Borras

Chair OASIS TGF Technical Committee

m. +(0)44 7976 157745

Skype: gov3john

www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tgf

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Extract from TC Process Handbook:

“However, if negative votes are cast amounting to less than 25 percent of the votes that have been cast, the TC shall be notified of the negative votes, after which the TC shall have 30 days to take one of the following actions by Resolution of a Special Majority Vote: (a) request the TC Administrator to approve the specification as submitted despite the negative votes; (b) withdraw the submission entirely; or (c) submit an amended specification, in which case the amended submission shall be considered as if it were a new submission, except that information regarding previous votes and any disposition of comments received in previous votes shall accompany the amended submission. If the originating TC upon notification of negative votes takes no formal action within the 30 days allocated for consideration of the results, then the specification shall not become an OASIS Standard.

Failure of a ballot for any reason shall not prevent a later version of the same specification from being submitted again as specified in this section.”

tgf message