Re: PAC: MT 10 (voting by mail)

[Jon Bosak <bosak@boethius.eng.sun.com>]

[tallen@sonic.net:]

| >      Business day -- excludes weekends and such holidays as may
|       be designated by the board of directors.
|                                                    
| still doesn't handle the fact that there are all kinds of holidays
| all over the world; the Board can't be expected to know of them all.
| I don't have a solution except to ignore holidays and exempt only
| weekends (which gets you into the problem that the weekend is 
| different days in different places ...)

I grant all the difficulties, but I have to consider some solution
to this better than no solution.  I think it's significant that
this problem has arisen as a serious issue in both W3C and in the
IW3C2.  It has to be dealt with somehow.

Here are the only solutions that I can think of:

1. Every year, have the board determine the holiday schedule for
   all OASIS TCs.  Advantage: uniformity of planning across
   different activities.

2. Every year, have each TC determine its holiday schedule for the
   year and adopt it as a standing rule.  (Remember that standing
   rules require a 2/3 majority for adoption.)  Advantage: the TC
   takes into account the observances of its individual members.

3. As in #1, but allow TCs to override the holiday schedule set by
   the board.  Advantage: maybe the best of both.

Which do we prefer?

Jon