Re: [ubl-csc] Adding prospective UBL TC members to UBL subcommittees

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2003-03-26 10:07 -0800, Jon Bosak wrote:
>Here's what I think we want.

Well said.

>A kind of breakthrough for me was the realization that "member" in
>Kavi simply means "R/W mail list subscriber."  What we call a
>member procedurally is what Kavi calls a "voting member."

That makes sense ... I was hung up on the word "member".

>If we want prospective TC members immediately to be able to post
>to the mail lists of the SCs in which they wish to participate
>(and I think we do)

I certainly do.

>If this is the case, then the only thing to be decided here is
>whether we want prospective TC members (who can't even post to the
>ubl list) to be able to vote in subcommittee meetings and, perhaps
>more importantly, to be counted toward a quorum in subcommittee
>meetings.  My hunch is that in general we don't,

I can live with that because the considered opinion of a respected member 
will be influential regardless of whether or not they have a formal vote.

>in which case our
>policy should be (a) in the general case, to immediately register
>prospective TC members as nonvoting members of the SCs in which
>they wish to participate and change them to voting members of the
>SCs when they become full members of the TC, and (b) in the
>special case, to register prospective TC members as voting members
>of an SC if the SC has been set up that way.  I'm thinking in the
>latter case of the Liaison SC.
>
>Does this make sense?

It does to me, Jon ... thanks.  At what point will the TC have decided this 
will be the way to proceed should everyone agree?  I need to contact my 
FPSC prospective members and get them to be TC prospective members.

.............. Ken


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