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