[AFS3-std] chairs?

[Steven Jenkins]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:
...
> To be clear...
>
> In my message, "Call for Votes", sent on August 24, and speaking for the
> registrars/vote-takers as a group, I wrote the following:
>
>
>> Because the elections process has never been used or tested before, ther=
e
>> are inevitably some gaps which need to be filled. =A0Additionally, we fe=
el
>> the circumstances of bootstrapping call for special handling which is no=
t
>> fully spelled out in the provisional charter. =A0Therefore, the vote-tak=
ers
>> have taken several decisions regarding the process for the present
>> election _only_. =A0It is our hope that once the election is concluded a=
nd
>> chairs are installed, the group will take what we have learned (and what
>> we will learn) into consideration when formulating its initial charter.
>> The decisions we've taken are as follows:
>
> ...
>
>> - In any situation which draft-wilkinson-afs3-standardisation-00 does
>> =A0not anticipate or address, the vote-takers will apply common sense
>> =A0to determine an appropriate course of action.
>
>
>
> This is such a provision, and we're invoking that bullet point now.
>
> In response to the community, Doug has issued a consensus call on whether=
 to
> accept the election results posted by Thomas and myself without waiting f=
or
> David's confirmation. =A0Note that even if the election results are _not_
> accepted, under the lack-of-rules we have so far, Doug has as much author=
ity
> to do this as anyone else.
>


I also agree that the vote counts of the two vote-takers be accepted.

Thank you,
Steven