Is it? RE: [chairs] OASIS Organizational Voting is Somewhat Absurd?

This is an interesting thread.  It might be more accessible to members 
-- and also better would serve our hope to avoid long threads on this 
mandated list -- if it were moved to the general membership discussion list 
at .
     We do want to keep traffic on this particular list low-overhead, where 
possible, because the only way off this list is to stop being a TC chair.
     On the merits, I do have some thoughts, but will put them over in the 
anticipated oasis-member-discuss thread.
    Regards  Jamie

~   James Bryce Clark
~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~   

At 09:48 AM 9/29/2005, Philpott, Robert wrote:
>+1.  Its not easy for even moderate-sized TCs to avoid having to send out 
>the plea for votes. * * *
>
>>From: Wachob, Gabe [mailto:]
>>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:28 PM
>>To: 
>>Subject: [chairs] OASIS Organizational Voting is Somewhat Absurd?
>>
>>An issue about the way OASIS holds organizational votes to move TC drafts 
>>to OASIS specifications has been gnawing on me for quite a while.  Under 
>>the current rules, 15% of organizational members have to vote yes on a 
>>specification. Currently, according to my rough research, this is 15% of 
>>342 voting organizations or 52 positive votes required *minimum*.  * * *