Re: [ubl-csc] Proposed SC subscription policy

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

i second that.

Jon Bosak wrote:

>UBL SC chairs,
>
>Allow me to propose one modification to the plan I sent out on
>Thursday.  It seems to me that our biggest problem is simply
>remembering to subscribe the new SC member when the five-day
>approval process times out.  But since all of our SCs have (I
>believe) decided to allow observers on their mailing lists, and
>since the formal requirement for observers is exactly the same as
>for nominees to UBL SCs (namely, that they be OASIS members or
>employees of OASIS member organizations), I think that we can
>finesse this by subscribing a person when their nomination goes
>out to the TC and calling that person an observer for the five
>days it takes to be approved by the TC.
>
>Then our procedure would go like this:
>
>1. A qualified person applies to an SC chair for membership.
>
>2. The SC chair forwards the request to me and at the same time
>   subscribes the applicant to the SC mail list.  The procedure
>   for doing this is as follows:
>
>      Send a message to <listname>-requests@lists.oasis-open.org
>      with the following message body:
>
>         subscribe <address>
>
>      where <listname> is the name of the list (e.g., ubl-ndrsc)
>      and <address> is the address to be subscribed.
>
>3. I post a "nomination" to the TC giving them the minimum five
>   days to object.
>
>4. For the five days it takes for formal TC approval, the
>   applicant is considered to be a nonvoting observer in the SC.
>   At the end of that time, the applicant automatically becomes a
>   voting member.
>
>I like this plan because it requires just one set of actions on
>the part of the SC chair (send me the application and subscribe
>the applicant) and one action on my part (send the nomination to
>the TC).
>
>Note that your SC must have approved the presence of observers on
>your mail list for this to work.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Jon
>
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