[OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

[Brian Kissel]

Don and John, can we send out another reminder to all members?  For those of you who know someone who is a member but hasn't been active, can you encourage them to vote ASAP!  Can we extend the voting period so we don't end another cycle without sufficient participation?

Cheers,

Brian
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From: openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Nat Sakimura
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:41 AM
To: SitG Admin
Cc: openid-general at lists.openid.net; Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)
Subject: Re: [OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

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<mailto: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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