More trouble with voting the KAVI way

["Green, Alastair J." <Alastair.Green@choreology.com>]

Sorry to raise this again, but I had allotted some of this afternoon to
WS-CAF, including registering my votes, only to run into the following
problems. 

I have every sympathy with any user or administrator of the dreaded KAVI
system, so I'm not having a go. 

On a constructive note, I would like to suggest that a voting sheet,
sent out and returned by e-mail, with the opportunity to cast votes on
one "piece of paper", on each of the current *batch* of proposals, would
be *vastly* easier to understand, keep track of, and probably easier to
administer.

Here goes ...

I discover that the ballots raised on Friday 6th at 8.00am Eastern were
closed at 12 midnight today. That is not seven days. I had misread "am"
for "pm", and thought I had till 5.00pm GMT, but that's beside the
point: it's not a full seven days. I think these ballots are invalid,
therefore.

Yesterday (12th Feb, 10.15 GMT) it turns out that I received the
following, billed in the subject line as a "New ballot". You will note
it is not a new ballot, and that it indicates a closure date of today,
so if it were to have been a new ballot, it would have been invalid.
There are several other examples of this "new-old" ballot, which seem to
result from amendments to allow visibility/change of votes.

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OASIS Web Services Composite Application Framework TC member,

A new ballot has been presented to OASIS Web Services Composite
Application Framework TC.  To vote on this ballot, go here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ws-caf/ballot.php?id=350

Please DO NOT REPLY to this email; instead, vote using the above link.

The text of this ballot is as follows:
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"Proposed resolution for issue 16"
Problem: None of the ws-caf wsdls are BP 1.0 compliant.  This was only
determined by a quick manual overview and seeing non BP compliant issues
such as import statements not being enclosed in the types section of the
wsdls.



Solution: To ensure BP 1.0 compliance the wsdls can be tested using
version 1.0 of the WS-I Testing tools.  The tools will produce a report
showing whether or not the wsdls comply with BP 1.0 or not.  We should
use this as the only sure test for proving that CAF WSDLs are BP 1.0
compliant.

Amendment Posted on 2/12/2004:
Allowed people to change votes and see others votes.

- Yes
- No

Referenced Items
Date            Name                             Type
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06 Feb 2004     services.arjuna.com/wscaf-i...   Document

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The ballot closes Friday, 13 February 2004 @ 12:00 am ET.  Please vote
before then by visiting:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ws-caf/ballot.php?id=350

Thank you,
OASIS Open Administration

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Yours,

Alastair