VOTE on Motions 5, 6, and 7
P1788,
Voting on Motion 5 Table of Operations ends Thursday, September 10
Current voting: 39 Yes, 4 No, of 72 registered Voting Members
Voting on Motion 6 Level 2 Multiformat ends Tuesday, September 15
Current voting: 32 Yes, 2 No, of 72 registered Voting Members
Voting on Motion 7 NaI ends Monday, September 21
Current voting: 7 Yes, 6 No, of 72 registered Voting Members
PLEASE VOTE
Statements of the motions were in Baker's original announcements, and they
are available at http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/. Please contact Baker
(rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) if you need the user ID and password for the private
area.
Instructions for registering for the working group may be found
At http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/wg1788Reg.html
I have come to understand that my understanding of out Policies and
Procedures on voting has been wrong. I had confused voting on wording of
the standard itself with voting on position papers as we are doing now. I
believe the correct reading of the P&P for our current motions is that a
quorum is 1/2 the Voting Members (currently 72 Voting Members). To pass a
motion requires a simple majority of those voting. Hence, the requirements
for passing a motion are considerably lower than what I have been
broadcasting and what I had told Baker he should state in the announcements
of voting. If anyone's reading of the P&P differs, please let Baker of me
know.
I am TERRIBLY SORRY for my miss-interpretation. So far, it has not affected
any of the votes we have taken, since all passed motions have been by more
than 2/3 of Voting Members.
No matter what the rules, I URGE YOU TO VOTE on the motions currently
pending.
George Corliss
P1788 Voting Tabulator (and Voting NAG)