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My comments may be out of place since this is a straw poll and not a formal
vote. However, it is my opinion that even in straw polls, the spirit of OASIS
process should be adhered to.
Membership in OASIS TCs is determined by "Eligible Persons" as defined in
the OASIS TC Process:
"'Eligible Person' means one of a class of individuals that includes
persons holding individual memberships in the corporation, employees of organizational
members of the corporation, members of organizations to which OASIS has extended
the benefits of joint membership, and such other persons as may be designated
by the board of directors."
From the section on voting:
Every member of a TC has a single vote. Organizations do not
vote in TCs. Proxies shall not be allowed in TC voting.
While it may be desirable to learn the opinion of Organizations (read companies),
formal votes and straw polls are not the mechanism by which to do so. I would
suggest that if companies wish to make their opinions known, they caucus
internally, and report back an opinion through one or more of their TC members.
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
This introduces the following problem, membership
requires us to participate in X% of all ballots so people who not vote ....
I suggest we have a two stage vote process, each
company gets one vote in the final ballot stage, the first stage is to determine
which way a company votes based on its inputs.
Companies which vote different ways may have an
image problem....
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelvin Lawrence [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:29 PM
To:
Subject: Interop Ballot - update please read
One of our members just pointed out
to me that I probably should have asked that folks from the same company
coordinate and have only one of them vote on the interop time frame preference
. The Kavi system as far as I can tell is not setup to allow for "one
vote per company" votes - and this makes sense given the OASIS process
where all TC members get a vote. However, it would be great if folks from
the same company could agree amongst themselves what their preference
is and elect one person to vote on their behalf.
I hope you are all able to access the
ballot!!
Cheers
Kelvin
