On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:27:55 AM -0400 Steven Jenkins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Steve Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>... > >> My suggestion is that the remaining chair breaks the tie. >> >> Yes, that leaves the decision in the hands of the remaining chair, but >> it follows the principle of 'the buck stops here', and it also >> reflects the responsibility in the hands of the chairs and the voters. >... > That said, I don't have any objection to giving the returning chair a > casting vote, as was suggested previously. However, we must cover the > situations in which there is no returning chair, including the bootstrapping > case. >
I suggest that if there is no returning chair, then the registrars break the tie. Note that with that in place, the bootstrapping process is adequately covered in section 3. I quote it here for convenience: 3. Bootstrapping the Process Should the proposals in this document be accepted, we need to consider how to bootstrap the process. I propose that once consensus has been reached on this document, we elect two chairs in the manner described above, with a start date to be determined. The chair with the lower number of votes would serve a 1 year term, the chair with the higher number, 2 years as normal. The registrars would be initially comprised of the current registrar, plus a representative from each of the currently available AFS implementations (IBM, OpenAFS, kAFS and Arla) ie, in the case of a tie in the boostrap case, you as the current registrar, someone from IBM AFS or designee, someone from OpenAFS (whomever the elders name as the designee), kAFS (David Howells or designee) and Arla (Love? or designee) would break the tie. Any of you could choose to abstain, recuse yourselves, etc, but the group as a whole would be responsible for breaking the tie in whatever manner you (plural) see fit. In the case, post-bootstrap, where there is no chair to break the tie, the members of the registrars at that time would break the tie. Is that reasonable? -- Steven Jenkins End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
