Re: PAC: MT 10 (voting by mail)

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

> 
> Which do we prefer?
>
 
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Jon Bosak wrote:
> 
> [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

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