Re: [802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++ Motion on all-802 Interims
Colleagues-
Although this motion has wisely been ruled out of order, the original
comment/ballot period is still open and it has been suggested that the
motion should be reformulated.
I would speak against the motion in principle in the current and future
form. This is a BAD IDEA.
I agree with everything Ms. Thaler said.
Further, this sort of policy would preclude groups from timing their
meetings to a balloting cycle if there was an "overriding interim".
I am certain that the constituencies that I work with uniformly and
overwhelmingly vote against such an inflexible system. Further, the nature
of such a rule that would forbid alternative scheduling is unprecedented
(other than the hierarchical nature of our meeting and the Monday tutorial
rule). For example, it is perfectly permissible to have an interim the week
immediately before or after the Plenary week.
This kind of coercive action toward a volunteer body is very likely to
backfire.
Geoff
At 01:25 PM 10/3/2006 , Bob Heile wrote:
>Dear EC Colleagues
>
>At our chairs meeting at the Interim in Melbourne, the topic of the
>January 2007 Interim came up and the lack of support it was getting from
>some groups. In attendance were Stuart Kerry, Mike Lynch, Steve
>Shellhammer, Vivek Gupta, Carl Stevenson and myself.
>
>We unanimously agreed that we wanted to put forward the following motion
>for EC email ballot to encourage participation. These sessions are
>financially risky enough without adding the unknown attendance factor. If
>this motion passes, it will not necessarily fix that problem, but it is
>nudge in the right direction. Paul requested that I run the ballot.
>
>Moved:
>
>When the EC sponsors an all 802 Interim, that Interim shall be the only
>sanctioned Interim for that period. If a Working Group does not
>participate in the all 802 Interim and meets separately during that
>period, that Working Group's session can not be called an interim and can
>not be substituted for a Plenary for the purposes of gaining or
>maintaining voting rights.
>
>mover: Stevenson
>second: Heile
>
>The ballot opens as of this email and closes 2359 AoE Friday October 20, 2006.
>
>Regards
>
>Bob
>
>
>
>Bob Heile, Ph.D
>Chairman, ZigBee Alliance
>Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks
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