All Member Ballot - KIR20091102

This page reports on the details of the first All Member Ballot of 2009. We'll refer to it as All Member Ballot KIR20091102.

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.