From bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com Thu Apr 23 19:47:55 1992 Received: from travis.csd.harris.com by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA15407; Thu, 23 Apr 92 19:47:55 +0200 Received: from amber.ssd.csd.harris.com by travis.csd.harris.com (5.61/harris-5.1) id AA07616; Thu, 23 Apr 92 13:39:29 -0400 Received: by amber.ssd.csd.harris.com (5.61/CX/UX-5.0) id AA17028; Thu, 23 Apr 92 13:39:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 13:39:27 -0400 From: bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) Message-Id: <9204231739.AA17028@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com> To: jwagener@trc.amoco.com Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: Jerrold L. Wagener's message of Thu, 23 Apr 92 09:37:59 CDT <9204231438.AA20074@trc.amoco.com> Subject: (SC22WG5.117) response to request for clarification X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 09:37:59 CDT > From: Jerrold L. Wagener > To X3J3 and WG5 - > In response to Bill Leonard's request for clarification of X3J3 membership > requirements with regard to meeting attendance, the rule for many years has > been that missing 2 out of 3 successive meetings puts one on the "endangered > list" (as we've called it). Being on the endangered list means that you need > to attend (or be represented at) the next meeting in order to maintain > membership. This in effect means that you need to miss 3 out of 4 meetings > for membership to be terminated; until that happens you are a full-fledged > voting member of the committee. Endangered members are indicated with double > asterisks in the attendance list - see for example page 7 of the meeting 120 > minutes. > We've tried to communicate this clearly at virtually every meeting, but for > some reason it just seems to be a hard thing to convey. I hope this > clarifies it for anyone else who might had a misunderstanding of the rules. This seems to get changed every time we discuss it. I remember when I first joined the committee, we were using the "3 out of 4" rule. But then someone said that wasn't right, and the rule changed to "2 out of 3". That's what I've been going by ever since. I just looked in my brand-new copy of the SD-2, and here's what it says: "Voting members of X3 and its subgroups shall be terminated under the following conditions: a) The principle and all alternate representative(s) shall be warned in writing upon failure of the organization to: (1) attend two out of three successive meetings, in which case the membership shall be terminated if not represented at the next meeting; or" Does the little marking in the meeting minutes qualify as being "warned in writing"? Anyway, it sure sounds like Jerry's right and we're back to the "3 out of 4" rule. Thanks for the clarification, Jerry. Bill Leonard Harris Computer Systems Division 2101 W. Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 bill@ssd.csd.harris.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreign Aid: The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------