RE: P&P: FW: Proposed Revisions to Website

["West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE" <matthew.west@shell.com>]

Dear Julian,

See responses below.


Matthew West
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE 
> > Sent: 29 December 2003 21:28
> > To: Suo-Policies (E-mail)
> > Subject: Proposed Revisions to Website
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Colleagues,
> > 
> > I recently posted what I considered to be relatively mild
> > changes to the SUO website only to find that they were
> > apparantly controversial.
> > 
> > The first relates to SUMO. My understanding from the archives
> > was that SUMO failed its last independent ballot, and had
> > its status as a "starter" document from its involvement in
> > the "Lattice of Theories" motion, as indeed did OpenCYC.
> > Jim's memory is otherwise, and he certainly declared the
> > motion as passed.
> > 
> > There are a number of issues that come result from this.
> > 
> > 1. We need to make a clear statement of how votes are 
> > counted. It matters much less that they are voted one way 
> > or another, than that you know which way. As I understand
> > it, this is not something we can choose, only understand.
> 
> Agreed 100% -- I thought that this had been captured by Jim prior to 
> consideration of the motion(s) dealing with the Lattice Of Theories 
> proposal.

MW: Jim's interpretation of the ruling was that YES > NO + ABSTAIN,
which I'm sure most of us would be happy with. However, Bob claims
that this does not conform to the ruling, which says that a mojority 
of voting members present is required. Further our ballots are
deemed to be letter ballots, so all voting members are deemed to be
present. On this basis the formula should be:
YES > NO + ABSTAIN + NO REPONSE + RESPONDED BUT DID NOT VOTE

If we act to manage the NO RESPONSE and DID NOT VOTE this won't
make much difference, but personally I am happy to adopt the hard 
line rather than have repeated contention on votes where the
difference matters.
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