Subject: Re: FW: A modification to the P1647 PAR (fwd)
From: Paul J. Menchini (mench@mench.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 08:15:08 PDT
Ladies and Gentlemen of the DASC,
The DASC mailing list address was incorrect in my response, so I hereby
forward my response.
Paul
Forwarded message:
> From mench Fri May 23 11:13:20 2003
> From: "Paul J. Menchini" <mench>
> Message-Id: <200305231513.h4NFDEVp000900@mench.mench.com>
> Subject: Re: FW: A modification to the P1647 PAR
> To: dennisb@model.com (Brophy, Dennis)
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:13:12 -0400 (EDT)
> Cc: mench@mench.com ("Paul J. Menchini (E-mail)"),
> stds-dasc-sc@dasc.org ('stds-dasc-sc@dasc.org'),
> dasc@dasc.org ('dasc@dasc.org')
> In-Reply-To: <F7DECA8E801AD51195F100508BB89DA607B3F97C@svr-orw-exc-04.wv.mentorg.com> from "Brophy, Dennis" at May 22, 2003 07:08:08 PM
> Dennis,
>> Since DASC bylaws require membership in DASC to be a chair of any of
>> our working groups, all chairs who are not DASC members have
>> automatically surrendered their chair positions. I suggest that you
>> immediately asses which of the chairs are not members and that we call
>> for an election from the DASC membership to fill those vacancies. I
>> am more than willing to serve as chair for some of those vacant
>> positions. I call for immediate nominations and elections for those
>> vacated positions.
>> I note that the 1364 position is vacated and wish to nominate myself
>> in the election for the new chair.
>> I also think you need to cull the DASC email reflectors and remove all
>> from those reflectors that do not have membership credentials or
>> ex-officio positions that the DASC deems necessary for the operation
>> of the DASC.
> I suggest that, prior to taking these actions, we:
> 1. Ensure that we are operating strictly according to our bylaws, and
> that our bylaws, as published, are up to date. To do otherwise
> would be to compromise the openness and transparency of our actions,
> in my opinion. We may otherwise also leave ourselves open to
> charges that we are operating outside of our own rules.
> 2. That we give people some period of time (a week or two) to correct
> their status before we remove them from either the DASC or from a
> position as chair. Given what I believe is our overall goal of
> incrasing membership (consistent with our bylaws), I believe that
> removing people in a precipitous fashion would not result in an
> outcome favoring the continuing health of the DASC.
> Assuming that you and that the other members agree, can I have a couple
> of volunteers to assist me in getting the bylaws updated? If someone
> can pull out the emails describing the decisions that are not yet
> reflected in the published bylaws and send them to me, I'll update the
> bylaws, post them in a private area and send the URL around to the SC
> for review. Once we are satisfied, I'll make them "live" and notify all
> of the update.
> Secondly, I hereby remind all SG and WG chairs that it is, in fact, a
> requirement that all chairs be members of the DASC. If you are not a
> member, you are subject to removal by the DASC-SC, so I urge you to
> become a member with all due haste. A membership application form is
> found at http://www.dasc.org/dasc_membership_application.html. Please
> print out a copy, fill it out and either fax it in (with a credit card
> payment) or mail it in (with a check or credit cart payment) according
> to the instructions on the form. If you are not sure whether you are a
> member, I've asked John Daniel of the Computer Society (our
> administrator) to circulate the current roster (jw.daniel@computer.org),
> so you can verify your status.
> Moreover, I again remind all WG chairs that every voting member of your
> WG must be a DASC member. (I think we must await updating of the bylaws
> before we can unequivocally state that this is also a requirement for
> the SG voting members.) See the information above for information on
> how to join. However, please do not have all your members contact
> Mr. Daniel--I don't want him overwhelmed. John, perhaps you can
> circulate the latest DASC roster to stds-dasc-sc@dasc.org, so that the
> WG chairs can have this information at hand and individually field
> status queiries from ther members.
> Regards,
> Paul
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