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RE: [legalxml-sc] Confirming Meeting Information

From: Roger Winters
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:32:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [legalxml-sc] Confirming Meeting Information

From: "Winters, Roger" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, "Winters, Roger" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:30:39 -0700

Title: RE: [legalxml-sc] Confirming Meeting Information

John, and others,

There appear to be nine "members" (and two OASIS representatives) listed on the Roster on the Steering Committee web page at OASIS:

John Messing
Rolly Chambers
John Greacen
Debi Miller-Moore
Eddie O'Brien
Daniel Greenwood
Karl Best
Patrick Gannon
Donald Bergeron
David Roberts
Roger Winters

Are there others who are "carry-over" members of the Steering Committee who are not included in the Roster on the OASIS site?

I wrote this morning to every one of the members listed, except Don Bergeron and John Messing, who knew already all about the meeting, and except John Greacen, whom I have succeeded on the Steering Committee as representative of Court Filing. I also wrote to Dave Marvit, who's been elected by Contracts to represent them. I told him he should try to sign up for this group on OASIS, too, and gave him the details of the meeting.

Since we have no Charter, I do not know what gives any of the carry-over members authorization to vote nor what prevents them from having authorization to vote. If they do not get to vote, our Steering Committee is the elected representatives: Marvit, Messing, Moore, and Winters (quorum = 3). However, I hope all the members listed on the roster will attend -- they passed the resolution or whatever that called for elections by the technical committees. For continuity's sake, perhaps we continue as a group of nine (Greacen dropped, Marvit added) for which quorum would be 5. It is possible that the Integrated Justice Technical Committee might conclude its election in time to send its representative, which would up the quorum to 6.

While I agree with John that it is good to have funding policies and criteria, I hope people are sensitive to the need to act on requests for resources that are seen as key to making progress on specifications. I hope John or someone might propose what the policies and criteria might be, so we might perhaps adopt something if people feel that is necessary in order to act on the requests. It is conceivable to make the decisions without having formal policies and criteria in place. (Ultimately, funds are expended based on the chair transmitting a recommendation to the executive officer of OASIS, who has final say and writes the check -- that seems to me to offer some sort of check and balance on any committee's spending.)

I believe Don Bergeron may attend on Tuesday -- he has advised me he would seek out information about Member Section resources so that can be reported. I hope he, as chair, will follow an agenda that includes the items John Messing and I have each mentioned (all of which are below). If he is not present, those who are should select an acting chair.

Regards,

Roger Winters