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Subject: Re: PAC: Suggested language for CS 6
[kfbest@earthlink.net:] | We should allow the quarterly schedule to be offset from calender | quarters. I don't like the idea of having to start a voting cycle | (i.e. sending out a bunch of new considerations for the next | quarter and ballots for this quarter) on January 1. Nor do I think | people want to have ballots due on December 31. For simple-minded people like me, having the quarters line up with the calendar year is a real blessing. If it bothers me to be mailing in ballots on December 31 then I can jolly well make up my mind earlier in the quarter. And no one is saying that you have to work on a holiday. [btusdin@mulberrytech.com:] | I suggest an alternate, that won't take significantly longer but | that I think will significantly increase votes: | | "Any proposed standards shall be submitted to the OASIS | administrator thirty days before the start of a callendar quarter, | to allow time for administrative processing. The proposal shall | be submitted to the OASIS membership for information purposes as | part of a quarterly package of standards-related information. The | membership shall be informed that a vote on this standard will be | called by the following quarterly packet of standards related | information. The following quarter, in the quarterly packed of | standards related information shall appear a ballot on the | proposed standard." Let's assume for purposes of discussion that the year begins January 1. Let's pretend that I'm the chair of a TC that meets the first week of January and votes to send a specification to OASIS for standardization. Then the next quarterly package goes out March 1, the call for a vote goes out July 1, and the vote on our proposed standard ends September 30. That's almost nine months. Am I the only one who thinks that this is a really long time? Jon
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