OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee Elections Now Open

Dear OASIS members:

Two seats serving two-year terms on the OASIS Identity and Trusted Infrastructure
(IDtrust) Member Section (MS) Steering Committee,

http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/steering-committee,
are open for election; voting closes at 5:00 PM EDT on 30 August 2010.

Each IDtrust MS Supporting Entity has one Qualified Elector who casts the single
vote on behalf of his/her organization. Unless otherwise designated, the
organization's Primary Rep serves as the Qualified Elector, see current roster;
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/idtrust-ms/members/roster.php

The Primary Rep may defer the voting member role to another employee member by
sending an email to ;
any such change should be in place before the ballot is cast. Also, any OASIS
member may join the IDtrust Member Section at any time. Please send an email to

and request participation in this member section.

To insure that all Members and Observers in this Member Section understand the
election process, the voting instructions are as follows:

Cast your vote by email to ,
your message should contain your ranked preference for the candidates.
 Start with 1, continuing until you have no further preference for the
remaining candidates.

1 First Candidate name

2 Second Choice Candidate name

3 Third Choice Candidate name

Your candidates are listed alphabetically as follows:

Peter Alterman

June Leung

Bruce Rich

* Special Note:  Abbie
Barbir was candidate, but withdrew himself from consideration.

The candidate profiles may be
found at: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/idtrust-ms/documents.php,
located in the '2010 IDtrust Steering Committee Candidates' folder.

The voting will be by email, with the results tallied via the Single Transferable
Voting (STV) - Scottish Method. See http://stv.sourceforge.net/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote.

STV considers your ranked preference for candidates in order to more accurately
reflect the wishes of the electorate.

Remember, vote by email to .

The deadline is 5:00 PM EDT on 30 August 2010.

I am happy to answer any questions.

Best regards,

Jane Harnad

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

+1.978.667.5115