NICE-ESG-Libs Digest Mon, 27 Feb 95 Volume 1 : Issue 193
Today's Topics:
Call for votes
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 10:08:54 EST
From: fhart@atlanta.twr.com (C. Frederick Hart)
Subject: Call for votes
To: nice-esg-libs
Tower wishes to withdraw LIB95-TWR-PART_COMPARABLE and
LIB95-TWR-COMPARABLE and instead support LIB95-PAJ-PART_COMPARABLE and
LIB95-PAJ-COMPARABLE. We continue to support LIB95-TWR-HASHABLE and
LIB95-TWR-HASHABLE2 and are eager to answer any questions concerning
them.
I do have several questions and comments regarding procedure:
- Do we have a current list of voting members of the library
committee?
- In light of the committee rules for voting on change proposals,
it would seem that calling for simultaneous votes on competing
proposals, such as the ones on PART_COMPARABLE and COMPARABLE
listed above, is unfair. The problem is that a significant
majority of committee members could vote for one or the other
proposal but neither would pass since a proposal requires
greater than half of the active members on the committee to vote
for it. I submit that competing proposals should be voted on
serially rather than in parallel. Ideally, some effort would be
made to resolve the two proposals so that a serial vote would not
be necessary.
- This brings up my last point of contention. I do not believe that
it is fair to require a majority of current committee members to
vote yes on proposal for a proposal to pass. I think that passage
should simply require that more yes votes be cast than no votes.
Abstentions, late votes, and failure to vote should not be
counted as a no vote, as they currently are. These non-votes
should not affect the calculation of a majority.
-- Fred Hart (fhart@atlanta.twr.com)
Tower Technology Corporation http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Tower/
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