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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
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