-----Original Message----- From: Dee Schur [mailto:dee....@oasis-open.org] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:09 PM To: 'idtr...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'idtr...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'anno...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'km...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'xac...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'secu...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'dss...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'ek...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'xr...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'im...@lists.oasis-open.org'; 'xd...@lists.oasis-open.org' Subject: OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee Elections Now Open

OASIS members:

Three 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, is open for election; voting closes at 5:00 PM EDT on 8-July-2009.

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 memb...@oasis-open.org; 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 memb...@oasis-open.org 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 sc-e...@oasis-open.org, 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:

Taher Elgamal Eran Hammer-Lahav Michael McIntosh John Sabo Anil Saldhana

The candidate profiles may be found at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/idtrust-ms/documents.php, located in the ‘2009 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 sc-e...@oasis-open.org.

The deadline is 5:00 PM EDT on 8-July-2009.

I am happy to answer any questions.