OASIS members:

Two seats serving two-year terms on the OASIS Identity and Trusted

Infrastructure (IDtrust) Member Section (MS) Steering Committee [1] are

open for nomination recommendations. Any IDtrust MS participant may

nominate or be nominated as a candidate for the Steering Committee. If

you aren't currently active in the IDtrust Member Section, now is a

great time to join [2]. The process to join is simple but it must be

completed during the nomination period.

The IDtrust Steering Committee provides guidance to help the Member

Section achieve its goal of promoting greater understanding and

adoption of standards-based identity and trusted infrastructure technologies,

policies, and practices. The nomination and election procedures for the

Steering Committee are defined by the OASIS Member Section Policy [3]

and the IDtrust Member Section Rules of Procedure [4].

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 Representative serves as the

Qualified Elector.

The Primary Rep may defer the voting member role to another employee

member by sending an email to memb...@oasis-open.org; any such

change should be in place before the ballot is cast.

NOMINATION & ELECTION SCHEDULE

Nominations will be held 11 June - 30 July 2010.

The election will be held 2 August- 17 August 2010.

NOMINATION PROCESS

Any IDtrust MS participant may nominate a candidate via email to:

nomi...@oasis-open.org

Prior to being confirmed as a candidate, each nominee must:

1. Accept the nomination

2. Confirm his/her ability to meet the time commitments of the position

(participation in a one hour teleconference each month, promote the

work of the Member Section, additional outreach activities as needed);

3. Provide background information and a position statement describing

his/her qualifications and motivations for serving on the Steering

Committee; and

4. Be a participant in the IDtrust Member Section.

ELECTION PROCESS

The two new Steering Committee members will be selected by the MS

Qualified Electors, using the Single Transferable Voting (STV) process

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Scottish Method [6]. STV considers each voter's ranked preference for

candidates, in order to more accurately reflect the wishes of the

electorate. Results will be announced immediately after they are

tabulated

and confirmed.

We encourage all IDtrust MS participants to consider serving on the

Steering Committee. Please contact (memb...@oasis-open.org)

with

any questions you might have regarding this process.

[1] http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/steering-committee

[2] http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/join

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ms_policy.php

[4] http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/RoP

[5] http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/members

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

Thank you,

Dee

Dee Schur, Member Support

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

+1.978.667.5115 x211