 | This page reports on the details of the first All Member Ballot of 2009. We'll refer to it as All Member Ballot 2009-01. |
Motion
This is an All Member Ballot to approve the amendments below to be incorporated in to the Kantara Initiative Operating Procedures Version 1.1.
The ballot closes on November 2nd, 2009 at 23:59 UTC.
This ballot is open to all Members of Kantara Initiative. Passage requires a Supermajority of those Voting (i.e. at least 75% of those casting a vote must vote to Approve).
Add the following text as the third paragraph in section 2.6:
"For the purpose of maintaining a reasonable ability to achieve Quorum, any Voting Member of the LC who fails to attend two consecutive meetings of the LC may, at the discretion of the Chair, be re-classified as a non-voting member. Voting status may be reacquired by attending a meeting of the LC. In the case of an electronic vote of the LC, if the electronic vote is initiated while a member is in non-voting status, the member may not vote in that electronic vote."
Replace the fourth paragraph of section 3.3 (beginning "All WG Chair and...") with the following text:
"All WG Chair and Vice-chair and Editor elections shall be conducted by secret ballot unless the WG passes a motion by unanimous consent to hold a non-secret ballot."
In Section 3 (Work Groups) change "Intellectual Property policies" to "Intellectual Property Rights Policy".
In Section 3.7 (Decision Making), second paragraph, last sentence, change "vote occurs" to "vote is initiated".
Annex B (Discussion Group Request (Template)). Replace the explanatory text under section "(5) Copyright Policy" with the following:
"Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported or another Organization approved Intellectual Property Rights Policy Option to cover any copyright material that may be produced as a result of DG Participants’ posts to the wiki or email archives."
Duration
This ballot was open from October 26th, 2009 to November 2nd, 2009 at 23:59 UTC
Ballot Results Summary
26 Member Representatives participated in the ballot. 25 voted YES and 1 voted NO (comment provided for No vote).
Ballot Results Details
- Results listed in the order they were received.
Representative
Organization
Vote cast in favour
Comment
1
Bill Smith
Sun
Yes
2
Darrell Shull
BiPac
Yes
3
Ken Salzberg
Intel
Yes
4
Alan Nagelberg
CSC
Yes
5
Philippe Clement
OrangeFT
Yes
6
Roger Martin
AOL
Yes
7
Matthew Gardiner
CA
Yes
8
Roger Sullivan
Oracle
Yes
9
Barry Hieb
Global Patient Identifiers
Yes
10
Susan Landau
Sun
Yes
11
Paul Trevithick
Paul Trevithick
Yes
12
Iain Henderson
MyDex
Yes
13
Colin Wallis
New Zealand State and Government Services
Yes
14
Paul Madsen
NTT
Yes
15
Conor P. Cahill
Intel
Yes
16
John Tolbert
Boeing
Yes
17
Nat Sakimura
NRI
Yes
18
John Fraser
MedNet
Yes
19
Kyle Meadors
Drummond Group (DGI)
Yes
20
Peter Davis
NeuStar
Yes
21
Lucy Lynch
ISOC
Yes
22
Hasan Akram
Fraunhofer SIT Yes
23
Jim Zok
CSC
Yes
24
Ryota Hashimoto
NTT
Yes
25
Hiroshi Kumeta
NTT
Yes
26
Colin Soutar
CSC
No
We respectfully suggest that a better balance between: facilitating membership voting privileges; providing working group efficiency; and ensuring that members are not inactive until an agenda item draws their attention; could be attained if the voting rights were not re-instated until AFTER attending a meeting. This is similar, but not as onerous to achieve or regulate than, for example, the INCITS regulations (http://www.incits.org/rd2/INCITS_RD2.pdf); As such, we would suggest an amendment to the proposed text: "For the purpose of maintaining an efficient and functional LC, as per the Duties and Responsibilities defined in 2.2: Any Voting Member of the LC who fails to attend two consecutive meetings of the LC may, at the discretion of the Chair, be re-classified as a non-voting member; Voting status may be reacquired by attending a meeting of the LC - voting rights (for both in-person and electronic ballots) will be re-instated at the end of the meeting."
References
This ballot was issued in compliance with section 6.2 and section 9 of the Operating Procedures.