Purpose of NCIP Standing Committee

In As agreed at Oct. 2-4, 2002 Inaugural meeting in Denver (and modified October 12-13, 2011 and then again in 2014), the purpose of the NCIP Implementation Group is to:

• Serve as a forum for discussion of technical issues
• Act as the Maintenance Agency for the standard (2014 update)
• Collect and publish application profiles
• Accelerate the implementation of NCIP
• Promote NCIP through education activities
• Assure appropriate representation within the membership of the group by including vendors, libraries, and others interested in the development of NCIP

Procedures

• Consensus is golden
• Voting: 1 vote per member organization
• Organization decides individual who votes
• A member can propose a vote (must be seconded)
  
• Two thirds of the NCIP Standing Committee membership is required to take a vote; 50% + 1 vote is required for the issue to pass
• Abstentions don't count either for or against
• Votes may be taken at an in-person meeting, on a regularly-scheduled conference call, or via on-line ballot.
  
• Default on-line vote duration is one week, exceeding which amounts to abstention; chair may reduce/extend this at own discretion
• All decisions, plus details of votes must be recorded in meeting minutes
  
• Finalization of application profiles will follow the established voting process
  
• Chair is only person who convenes meeting
• Chair may designate proxy
• Chair reports success/failure of vote
• Chair accepts membership application or refers to group
  
• Chair maintains membership list
  
• Chair is elected by the group for an unspecified term and must be approved by the NISO Discovery To Delivery Topic Committee
  
• Any group member may call for a vote for a new chair at any time