PKI Steering Committee Nominations Open

PARTICIPATE IN THE ELECTION
PROCESS

- As a member of the Member
Section you may nominate any OASIS member to the Steering Committee. 
Nominations are scheduled to be open 3-17 January 2006

- Elections are scheduled to
be open 18 January-1 February.  Your vote is important, as a majority of
members must select the Steering Committee. Detailed instructions on the
nomination and election process follow.

 BACKGROUND: 

The OASIS PKI Member Section
emerged from the PKI Forum, established in 1999 to foster support for
standards-based, interoperable public-key infrastructure (PKI) as a foundation
for secure transactions in e-business applications.  The purpose of the
PKI Member Section Steering Committee is to: 

a. Coordinate the activities
of OASIS technical committees that are part of the Member Section (i.e. the SC
serves the purpose of an OASIS Joint Committee); 

b. Promote the adoption and
implementation of specifications developed by PKI TCs, including directing the
creation of implementation guidelines, conformance tests, white papers, etc. by
PKI TCs; 

c. Promote PKI technology in
general through appropriate marketing efforts, and own and maintain the PKI
identity as part of that effort. 

 ELIGIBILITY: 

Steering Committee members must
be OASIS members in good standings.   

NOMINATION PROCESS: 

Members interested in
serving on the Steering Committee and standing for election shall provide notice
of their intention to run by sending an email to the PKI MS mailing list,  , and
include a statement of their intention to run and any other information they
believe will describe their interest and qualifications. Nominations will be
accepted until 10AM,
Eastern Standard Time, 17 January 2006. 
Where an individual is nominated by another member, the nominee shall provide
notice of their willingness to serve on the Steering Committee by that deadline.

 ELECTION: 

Following close of the
nomination period, a formal ballot will be established and open for a period
expected to be 18 January - 1
 February 2006. Five Steering Committee
seats will be filled. 

Each organizational member
of the PKI Member Section will get one vote in this election. Individual
Members and OASIS members who are not PKI MS members may not vote.  That
is, only those OASIS organizational members who had designated PKI Member
Section support at the time of joining OASIS or at renewal are eligible to
vote.  

The OASIS administration
team has recently synchronized the PKI MS group to their accounting records, so
any company that committed to the PKI Member Section has a representative on
the list. We suggest that eligible members review the PKI Member Section
members list to ensure that the appropriate individual is designated as a MS
voting member.  

This list is available at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/pki-ms/members/roster.php

Individual members of the
PKI Member Section interested in voting can upgrade from Individual Member
status to Organizational Member status by submitting the organization member application
--with PKI support clicked-- and notify  that
they wish to convert to an organizational member.  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 

If additional information is
desired on the responsibilities of Steering Committee members, background on
the PKI Member Section, or election issues, the current Steering Committee will
address those issues by email and can set up a teleconference to address
questions and provide more information. 

 Please do not hesitate
to contact 
with any questions about the election process.

 Thanks for your
participation.

 Scott
McGrath

Director Member Services



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