SUO: RE: Non-Active Voters
Dear Jim,
That sounds fine.
Where will this be enshrined for future reference?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim.s3@juno.com [mailto:jim.s3@juno.com]
> Sent: 03 December 2003 04:13
> To: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Subject: SUO: Non-Active Voters
>
>
>
> SUO WG,
>
> The SUO Policies and Procedure (P&P) Subgroup has
> addressed the
> problem of voting members who are not voting and can't be
> reached. We
> developed the following policy, reached full consensus on it and would
> like to open it to the fully group for discussion. It reads:
>
> "SUO WG voting members who do not acknowledge or cast
> a vote in 2
> successive ballots shall be removed from the list of voting members.
> They will be informed of this action, provided they can be
> reached. Such
> individuals may immediately regain voting rights by making a
> request of
> the Chair."
>
> Background: We felt no desire to deny voting rights to any
> member who wants them, but we felt the need to remove
> non-active members.
> In most cases, they have dropped out and don't want voting
> rights. If
> they do want them, at any time in the future, they can get them back
> immediately just by asking. We considered making them wait a
> period of
> time, but we felt there could be very valid excuses for
> missing two votes
> and we didn't want to have to remove voting rights against the will of
> the member.
>
> Please provide any comments or suggested edits.
>
> Jim
>
>
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