[dss] FW: [OASIS voting] OASIS Call For Vote - XACML

Title: FW: [OASIS voting] OASIS Call For Vote - XACML

Hi all,

[Apologies if you receive this multiple times (as I will!).  I just wanted to make sure to hit as wide a distribution list as possible.  Feel free to forward to other lists as you think appropriate.]

Just a reminder to those who haven't already done so...  If your company is an OASIS Member Organization, please contact your voting rep and encourage him/her to cast a vote on the XACML specification (instructions below).  A specification needs votes of approval from at least 10% of the voting membership, and negative votes from fewer than 10% of the voting membership, in order to become an OASIS Standard.  If not enough members vote, or if lots of members vote to abstain, a spec cannot become a Standard.

So, please, contact all the voting reps you know and encourage them to cast a vote.  I'd hate to have this spec stop short of becoming a Standard just because not enough people voted!

Carlisle.

-----Original Message-----

From: Karl Best [mailto:]

Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:45 PM

To: ; 

Subject: [OASIS voting] OASIS Call For Vote - XACML

OASIS Voting Representatives:

This is a Call For Vote to approve the eXtensible Access Control Markup 

Language (XACML) Committee Specification v1.0 as an OASIS Standard.

The review materials for this specification are available at 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200212/msg00002.html

This specification was submitted to OASIS members for a 30 day review 

from November 8, 2002 through December 8, 2002, then approved by the TC 

as a Committee Specification. The submission was then sent out to OASIS 

members on 31 December 2002 for the required 15-day familiarization 

period. The required review and familiarization periods have now been 

completed and it is time to vote.

As each OASIS member organization has only one vote, employees of your 

organization should have sent their input to you, their voting 

representative, so that you can decide on how to vote for your organization.

The voting representative from each OASIS member organization should 

submit the organization's vote to the following address by midnight ET 

31 January:

      

The ballot should be in a form similar to the following:

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[name of organization] votes on the approval of the following Committee 

Specification as an OASIS Standard:

XACML v1:  YEA/NAY/ABSTAIN

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As the specification has already gone through its public review period 

no comments will be collected during the voting period.

The organization may change its vote up to the end of the voting period. 

The organization's vote should be cast by the official voting 

representative, but if multiple people from a single organization cast 

votes the ballot cast by the organization's voting representative will 

take precedence.

-Karl

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Karl F. Best

Vice President, OASIS

+1 978.667.5115 x206

  http://www.oasis-open.org