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Subject: Addition to the issues list
I've just received this comment from James Clark, chair of the TREX TC. Please consider it one of the issues we will be addressing in our meeting of June 13. Jon ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: "James Clark" <jjc@jclark.com> To: "Jon Bosak" <Jon.Bosak@eng.sun.com> Subject: OASIS Process Comment Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:09:16 +0700 [...] The TC process rules on mailing list participation don't make sense to me. A TC foo has two lists: a foo list and a foo-comment list. Anbody can post to the foo-comment list and that forwards to the foo list. Moreover the foo list archives are open to anybody. So the net result is that anybody can both read and send messages to the foo list. Yet subscription to the foo list is open only to members. This requires laborious extra work for chairs in checking membership, annoys those who are refused subscription, and detracts from the perceived openness of the OASIS process. The policy of limiting membership of the TC and attendance at meetings to OASIS members seems totally reasonable. But there does not seem any point in limiting subscription to the mailing lists. I find it embarassing to have to enforce this. If the purpose is to stop disruption to mailing list discussions by non-members, then the current rules are ineffective, since posting to the foo-comment list is unrestricted. ------- End of forwarded message -------
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