Re: [802SEC] [802SEC] ex-officio request
Carl-
Ex-officio does not mean "non-voting". Rather it means being a member by
virtue of holding an office.
Please see:
http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/ahdsearch?search_type=enty&;
http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/ahdsearch?search_type=enty&q
uery=ex-officio&db=ahd&Submit=Search
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exempli_gratia#E
The Vice President of the United States is ex officio President of the Senate.
I would not count him either in the numerator or denominator of a quorum count.
Geoff
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At 03:56 PM 7/17/2007 , Carl R. Stevenson wrote:
I agree with Tony ... Ex officio means "non-voting."
My only concern with granting Paul voting rights in my WG is that he
normally doesn't attend interims and would count against quorum absent some
special provisions.
Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stds-802-sec@ieee.org
> [mailto:owner-stds-802-sec@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Tony Jeffree
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:32 PM
> To: Paul Nikolich
> Cc: STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org
> Subject: Re: [802SEC] [802SEC] ex-officio request
>
> Paul -
>
> I don't believe there is a problem granting you voting membership in
> each WG/TAG - the current P&P allow Chairs to do that. However,
> current P&P don't have a concept of an "ex-officio member" or what
> properties might be associated with it.
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
> At 18:17 17/07/2007, Paul Nikolich wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >Some of you have asked what my motivation to be given ex-officio
> >status in your group is. My motiviation is as follows--my duties as
> >802 Chair do not allow me to attend WG sessions on a regular enough
> >basis to acheive membership status the usual way, hence I am not a
> >member of any group. Does this mean I am not a member of LMSC? An
> >odd situation I'm trying to resolve via the ex-officio
> >mechanism. Also I wish to have the ability to vote on WG or TAG
> >matters when I do have the time to understand the issue under
> >consideration and weigh in on via a vote.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >--Paul
> >
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