Re: [802SEC] Proposed Alternative to changing the rules for WG membership
Bob
This still does not solve the quorum problem for interim meetings for those
working groups that conduct business every two months. I would rather deal
with Tony's issue on the definition of interims and fix this problem once
and for all
bob
At 11:58 AM 9/23/02 -0400, Robert D. Love wrote:
>Here is an interesting alternative to the proposed SEC motion to change the
>rules for membership in the working group. Based on the negative comments
>expressed so far it may be easier to more directly address the problem of
>voting members that no longer are reachable or care to respond to WG email
>requests.
>
>Add to the bylaws the ability of a WG prior to an electronic ballot to send
>out an email request to all voting members to respond if they wish to be
>included in the Working Group ballot pool for the upcoming Working Group
>Ballot. The Email request to participate in the ballot pool would have to
>be open for at least 30 days and close prior to the close of electronic
>balloting. Whoever responds to neither the request to be in the ballot
>pool, nor the ballot itself, would be dropped from the ballot pool. In this
>way no voters that respond to the ballot or to the request would be dropped.
>I believe that getting a quorum for voting would be far simpler if such a
>process were instituted.
>
>Along with this motion we may also want to add words that it is the WG
>participants responsibility to maintain accurate email contact information.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Robert D. Love
>President, Resilient Packet Ring Alliance
>President, LAN Connect Consultants
>7105 Leveret Circle Raleigh, NC 27615
>Phone: 919 848-6773 Mobile: 919 810-7816
>email: rdlove@ieee.org Fax: 208 978-1187
Bob Heile, Ph.D
Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks
Chair, ZigBee Alliance
11 Louis Road
Attleboro, MA 02703 USA
Phone: 508-222-1393
Mobile: 781-929-4832
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email: bheile@ieee.org