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Re: [8023-POEP] Ballot pool



Mike-

I agree with Hugh on this one.
Have you cleared this as a 802.3 valid procedure with the WG Chair?
Under 802.3 P&P, it is permissible for a TF to have voting/membership rules. I don't think that means that a TF Chair gets to decide to impose them unilaterally without notice.

The Task Force is the errand child of the Working Group.
The purpose of taking votes in the Task Force is to save time in the plenary.
If you annoy members of 802.3 by an exclusionary voting process in your Task Force
Then all you are doing is:
 - Annoying the members of your oversight group
 - Creating a hot topic for discussion in 802.3 that
    + creates anger
    + Distracts from your business at hand
    + Creates a climate disinclined to favor your requests
 - Setting up a situation where all of your decisions
   will get fully discussed and voted on the floor
   of 802.3
 - Really annoy all of the other 802.3 TF Chairs
   because of all of the plenary time you use up

Bottom line, bad idea.
Please reconsider.

Sincerely,

Geoff Thompson


At 07:50 AM 3/18/2008 , Hugh Barrass (hbarrass) wrote:
Mike,
 
Does this imply that you are disallowing any voters who are not on this list? I understand that a TF chair may allow votes to include people who are not on the 802.3 voter list, I'm not sure that a TF chair may exclude 802.3 voters who are registered for the meeting (even if they are not regular TF members).
 
Hugh.


From: owner-stds-802-3-poep@IEEE.ORG [mailto:owner-stds-802-3-poep@IEEE.ORG] On Behalf Of McCormack, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:40 AM
To: STDS-802-3-POEP@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [8023-POEP] Ballot pool

Colleagues:

 

As stated in my opening remarks, we will be conducting votes (save those without opposition) by role call.  Please look over the attached files to see that I have captured your information properly.  There are two files attached, one is Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2, the other is tab separated other than format they are the same.  E-mail me (mike_mccormack@ti.com), not the reflector, with changes.

 

I will be requesting that everyone on the list see me to confirm that they have registered for the meeting, check with me during breaks with your name tag.

 

Cheers

 

Mike

 

 

Michael McCormack

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