Ballot to approve SBS 1.0 as Second Committee Draft

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

Hello voting members of the UBL TC,

As agreed in this week's Atlantic call, we're now starting a
ballot to approve the second Committee Draft of the UBL 1.0 Small
Business Subset.  That draft is located at

   http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16123/UBL-1-0-SBS-cd2.zip

Voting begins at 3 p.m. New York time Friday 13 January 2006 and
ends at 3 p.m. New York time Friday 20 January 2006.

To cast your vote, log in to the members-only UBL TC site and
click on "Ballots."  DO NOT use the UBL mailing list for voting;
use the web site.  You will need to log in using your OASIS
password in order to vote.  You can access the members-only TC
site at

   http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/

Note that this vote takes place under the revised OASIS TC process
that went into effect in April 2005.  Where previously approval of
a CD required a yes vote of at least 2/3 of the voting members,
now it just requires a "full majority," i.e., more than half of
the voting members, but that's because CD is now just the first
step on the way to creating a Committee Specification (CS), which
still requires the 2/3 vote to approve.  The present vote simply
allows us to submit the CD to OASIS for a public review, after
which it will still be in our process awaiting the resolution of
comments received during the review cycle.  So voting to approve
at this point just allows us to start another public review; it
doesn't prevent us from making further changes.

You should understand, however, that "full majority" (usually
called "absolute majority") means that the CD will be approved
only if a majority of *all* the current voting members vote to
approve (not just more voting yes than voting no).  In effect,
this means that abstaining or failing to vote is exactly the same
as voting no; you can't really opt out of this, and failure to
vote *will* count against your voting status in the TC.  So I urge
you voting members to log in now and get it over with.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

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BALLOT TEXT

The question to be voted on reads as follows:

Resolved,

1. That the OASIS UBL TC approves the UBL 1.0 SBS candidate second
   Committee Draft currently located at

   http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16123/UBL-1-0-SBS-cd2.zip

2. That the UBL TC chair and the SBS editors are authorized to
   make such nonsubstantive changes to the approved document as
   may be required for publication as an OASIS Committee Draft.

3. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to submit
   the approved Committee Draft for OASIS public review.

4. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to make
   such further nonsubstantive changes to the approved Committee
   Draft as may be requested by OASIS Administration to meet the
   requirements of the OASIS public review process.