Fwd: [egov] OASIS ballot on the Common Alerting Protocol

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Dear TC members,

The voting for making the Common Alerting Protocol an OASIS standard 
closes tomorrow, March 31, 2004, end of day, and I would like to ask 
for your support, if your company hasn't already voted. We currently 
stand at 49 of the 54 total votes needed to fulfill the requirement 
of having 15% of the voting membership of OASIS. We only need 5 more 
votes to qualify. All votes cast to this point have been Yes, so we 
are quite close. If your company hasn't voted yet, and you want to 
support this effort, the process is described below and an article 
about CAP is attached.

Thanks,
Rex Brooks

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>I would like to request your support for the OASIS ballot
>on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). The attached article
>by Sikandra Christian gives a sense of what CAP is about.
>
>The ballot closes on March 31. To ratify a standard, we
>need affirmative votes from 15 percent of the OASIS members.
>We don't anticipate any problem with "no" votes; our issue
>is just to prompt enough OASIS members to cast a vote.
>
>To vote, go to "http://www.oasis-open.org/"; and select
>"Members Only". Click "All Groups" on the left, then click
>"Ballots" in the "Go To" section. You should see a ballot
>called "approve CAP as an OASIS Standard". If you encounter
>difficulty using the OASIS website, you can cast your vote
>by sending email to Karl.Best@oasis-open.org
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>Please forward this note if you are a member of other
>OASIS TC discussion lists that are interested in alerts.
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>Thanks,
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>Eliot
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