SUO: RE: Gathering questions and issues with IEEE motion

[Tim King <tmk@LSC.CO.UK>]

Title: RE: Gathering questions and issues with IEEE motion

The support below is gratifying.  I accept the points about "majority" and 50%.  I deliberately made the formula more general but used "majority" instead of a more suitable expression such as "motion carried";  I had in mind to also cover higher barriers such as occurs in the later stages of ISO standards development.

Cheers,
Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John F. Sowa [mailto:sowa@bestweb.net]
> Sent: 22 January 2002 16:42
> To: Tim King
> Cc: Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Gathering questions and issues with IEEE motion
>
>
> I like what seems to be to be a sound basis for an emering consensus:
> the suggestions by Matthew West, as extended by Tim King and further
> supported and clarified by Jon Awbrey.
>
> Following is Tim's extension to Matthew's suggestion:
>
>    Voting options = Yes, No, Abstain (no opinion), Abstain (not  
> participating)
>
>    Active members (registered to continue membership) = Yes + No +
>    Abstain (no opinion) + Abstain (not participating)
>
>    Voters = Yes + No + Abstain (no opinion)
>
>    Quorum:  Voters / Active members > x%
>
>    Majority:  Yes / Voters > y%
>
> Following is Jon's clarification (with my amendment of ">"
> rather than ">=" in the last line):
>
>    To avoid confusion, any suitable response, for
>    example "yes", "no", "abstain", or "present"
>    counts as a record of presence, while the
>    absence of such counts as a record of
>    absence.  By definition, y > 50.
>
> I hereby move that Tim King's extension with this clarification
> be adopted for all future votes to be taken by the SUO group.
>
> John Sowa
>

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