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Subject: RE: [legalxml-sc] LegalXML Steering Committee Proposal
From: Patrick Gannon <>
To: "Bergeron, Donald L. (LNG)" <>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:34:24 -0400
Don,
I am pleased to see that the LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee is
moving ahead to more formally define the selection process for electing
members of the SC. I would like to offer a couple of observations.
1) This document, LegalXML Steering Committee Membership & Structure, is
worded as a proposal with background information and commentary for
justifying the steps you are recommending. This is helpful information. In
order for the current LegalXML MS SC to make any formal changes, it needs to
be done by the submission of revisions to the existing LegalXML Member
Section Rules of Procedure (see attached). The revised RoP will need to be
submitted to the OASIS Board of Directors for approval.
2) The OASIS Board's meeting schedule includes a conference call on July
18th and face-to-face meeting in Billerica, MA on July 31-Aug 1. I would be
willing to request to our Executive Committee that we create a slot on the
F2F meeting agenda for a LegalXML MS report and vote to approve a revised
RoP. With 2 new Board members, this would be a good opportunity for you to
present your views of the past 4 months transition into OASIS, provide
status of activities and plans going forward. We would need to submit a
formal revised RoP by 7/23 in order to give the Board Directors one week to
consider. Please let me know by Thursday Noon, 7/18, if you want to have a
speaking slot on the agenda for the 7/31-8/1 meeting (otherwise, Karl would
provide a status report and present the revised MS RoP for vote by the
Board).
3) In preparing a revision to the RoP, every effort should be made to be
clear and concise and only stating how activities are handled going forward.
There would be no need to reference LegalXML Inc. in the text inserted into
the RoP document In my reading of your current proposal document, it is
still not clear to me how many members there will be on the LegalXML MS SC,
nor precisely how each of them are elected, by who, by what majority of vote
with what quorum necessary and whether voting by email is OK. Please work
with Karl to come up with appropriate language in the RoP to accomplish what
you have agreed to in this proposal.
4) In the last paragraph of the proposal is found the statement, "We should
keep it [LegalXML Inc.] in place for a short time (e.g. year end) more to be
a fallback if the relationship with OASIS does not develop." Please provide
me with your thoughts on what else you want and expect to see develop in
your relationship with OASIS going forward.
Respectfully submitted,
Patrick Gannon
President & CEO
OASIS
PO Box 455, Billerica, MA 01821
+1-978-667-5115 x201 (Office)
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