FYI just to give you all the heads up that this is coming. Raph's nomination statement below comes after Brian Raymor from Microsoft was nominated by one of the other MS employees. So right now, it is a 3-way contest for co-chairs. I just talked with Richard Coppen about this and how it will work. He is going to organize a conference call for the candidates and me so that I can explain how this will work: - I will send all of them a spread sheet with the roster tomorrow before the meeting - I will take over the meeting to run the election. I will explain to everyone on the call that the vote must be public - OASIS rules don't allow for secret ballots. (I don't know that our policies say anywhere that that's the case. If there is something I can cite that anyone knows of, I'd appreciate the pointer.) I will explain that this is going to be a roll call vote. I will call each voting member's name and they can vote for 2 of the 3, 1 of the 3, or abstain completely. Richard by the way intends to abstain. - I will then call the roll and record the votes on my copy of the spread sheet. I will hope to High Heaven we don't end up with a tie because I don't know how we handle a tie-breaker. This is unfortunate because Richard and the TC have done an excellent job. No one to my knowledge has ever suggested that they were being steamrolled by the big guys. Also, you may recall that 2 years ago, an MS employee wrote a blog post after MQTT's approval that called it a load of... well, said lots of unflattering things about it. They have gone from there to a position where MS now cares enough to want to help chair. Terrific progress. So I am sorry to see Raph throwing this spanner in - not so much that he is stepping forward but that he is doing so in a way that clearly confronts MS. Regardless, I want to keep you all in the loop just in case you get a "what the heck is this???" query from any of our other members. Best, /chet ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raphael Cohn <
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mqtt@lists.oasis-open.org > All, I'd very much like your support to continue serving you as your Co-Chair. I offer a genuinely independent choice; I work for no-one but myself. That has been a powerful factor in the success of MQTT; it is through my efforts, and those of Richard, Dee and Carol, that we have engaged, persuaded and encouraged many organizations to use MQTT. I have personally, at my own expense, represented MQTT at conferences in locations as diverse as Delhi and Pune, and have taken no-ones paycheck to do so. And have greatly enjoyed doing so. I am also, proudly, not a standards-man; indeed, my pragmatic, developer-led perspective and deep knowledge of start-up business drivers, ambition and culture make me a strong counter to the siren call of enterprise; we should not forget that MQTT's success is due to the 'little' man adopting it - and, in no short part - the little man who doesn't live in the Western hemisphere. Where the ambitious little man goes, the big hefty enterprise inevitably stumbles after with a lumbering gait. I would caution the TC that we should be careful to make sure that we continue to progress a standard fit for all, and not one that is for architects and standards bods long removed from the needs of our users. We must, at all costs, advance a standard for our users that is pragmatic for implementors. Raph -- /chet ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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