the OASIS mail on voting.
This would only seem to be more of an issue if we are moving from (I believe) our current consensus model to a formal voting model. If we are sticking with consensus then there is still a danger of a group 'weighting' discussions but we have that for years without too many problems with it. Is something broken enough to fix it? Steven
The OASIS Board Process Sub-Committee would like your input on a possible rule change regarding TC voting.
Currently any person who is a TC member can be a voting member. Since eligibility is determined on an individual basis, not an organizational basis, an organization can have an unlimited number of voters (up to the number of members it has on that TC). Some concerns have been raised about this being fair, being a drain on resources of those organizations, and making it harder to manage quorum. Other concerns have been raised that reducing voting power on TCs could reduce participation.
The options we are evaluating include: (a) Leaving the rules as currently written; (b) Capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC members from a single organization to 1, 2 or 3; (c) Capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC members from a single organization based on membership class (e.g., sponsors might get 3 versus contributors having 2).
The voting rights of individual and associate members in TCs would not be changed by these proposals.
Please send your comments to: [oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org] by 20 November, 2006.
[Bicycle crash boiler plate: I will include this boiler plate in my mails for a few weeks to apologize for terseness in the rest of the mail. I have a broken finger from the crash on Oct 4th, and typing is hard and possible only in short spurts. Sorry, Dave.]
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