Re: re voting

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

Postponing till Paris is fine with me.


Jon Bosak wrote:
> 
> [btusdin@mulberrytech.com:]
> 
> | I suggest that we require some substantial % of the committee
> | agree to the time period, what ever it is, and then let them set
> | it.  If they're doing something they feel under time pressure on
> | and they are willing to live with the results, let them set a 12
> | hour limit.  If they're working at about the pace this committee
> | is, they'll probably agree on something closer to 5 days.  If
> | they're all graduates of the ISO school of decision-making they
> | may choose 3 months.
> 
> Nnnng... I think that 12 hours is going too far; this would
> essentially allow a strong majority of the committee with good
> email connections to simply disenfranchise the rest.
> 
> [eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com:]
> 
> | I'm not sure I understand what the whole issue is -- why not let
> | the TC determine (perhaps at chartering time, perhaps later) what
> | the ideal time is? A TC of which Jon Bosak is a member will surely
> | adopt a 10 day rule, a TC of which Bill Smith is a member will
> | have to go for 30 days, while a TC of which Terry Allen is a
> | member will comfortably deal with 2 days. Why not just say "The
> | voting period should be adopted by the TC as part of the standing
> | rules"?
> 
> I don't think that anything is wrong with this, but Terry and I
> are agreeing (I think) that there is a minimum below which we are
> not comfortable letting the time go; I think that he and I are
> disagreeing only on what that minimum should be.
> 
> Given the need to decide some things so that I can release the
> first draft language of the bylaws as promised this weekend, I'd
> like to just let this parameter remain undefined (and suitably
> noted as such) until we can talk it through in Paris.  Does anyone
> have a problem with that?
> 
> Jon

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