[OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

[Chris Messina]

Is it safe to assume that not all members of this list receive these emails
in either a "timely" or "active" way?

That is:

1. Are all members of the Foundation signed up to this list or otherwise
able to receive notification of the poll?

2. Are all members of the Foundation registered on the website and with
necessary permissions/capabilities to vote?(notwithstanding technical
difficulties, whose abatement seems to be no one's responsibility)

3. Has an adequate portion of the entire eligible membership been notified
of the vote such that if they all voted, we would reach quorum? (i.e. if
people are consuming this list passively or on the web only or in digest
mode, perhaps they are not aware of the urgency of the vote, or have not
been adequately notified?)

I worry that, given the low turn out, either we're not reaching all
members eligible to vote, or worse, no one cares.

If it's the former, it seems that we would be able to do something about
that — to the point of individually mailing the members who haven't voted or
explicitly abstained. If it's that the members don't care, well, that's an
entirely different problem altogether.

Chris

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> An authoritative answer should come from the secretariat, but here is what
> I understand:
>
> The quorum is the greater of the 30% of the entire membership or 30.
> Since we seem to have 338 active members, that means 102 votes.
> Among it, we have to achieve majority of the vote + super majority of the
> entire board.
>
> Right now, only 58 votes has been cast, so we have significant shortage of
> the vote.
>
> FYI, to start a WG right now, we need 68 votes, so if we only get a current
> level of participation, we will not be able to spin out a WG, which means we
> are dead as a standardization forum.
>
> I urge everybody to vote.
>
> =nat
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:51 AM, SitG Admin <
> sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com> wrote:
>
>> This is to alert all that we have a significant shortfall in the vote re:
>>> the IPR process.  Votes are needed now.
>>>
>>> Many members may not be aware of the very high bar set for changes of
>>> this
>>> sort.
>>>
>>
>> You need something like a majority of all *possible* voters, not those who
>> actually vote? It almost sounds like a passive DoS attack, then - just pay
>> and forget to stall the voting process for that year.
>>
>> -Shade
>>
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