Bylaws update - comments

Regarding the deletion of lines 33-57
        in the Draft OASIS Bylaws Update distributed on 8/24/2020:

    
The above mentioned deletion leaves
        OASIS with no mission other than some vague fluffy statements
        with no real meaning.

    
 It does not delimit in any way what
        the focus of the organization is. 

      

    
Specifically, it never states whose
        market needs and directions it talks about, nor what kinds of
        standards, specs, code, policies or methodologies it will
        develop and refine -- and therefore by implication what kinds it
        will not.

      

    
 It provides the organization with no
        coherent goals; it gives the organization no reason to reject a
        proposal for the development and refinement of standards related
        to the classification of pornography acts, for example; or a
        proposal for the development of methodologies for untraceable
        murder activities; or why a TC should not facilitate the
        adoption of socially damaging artifacts like bullying or revenge
        humiliation. And even if it were argued that there are other
        reasons why the organization could reject such activities, the
        fact remains that lines 26-32 of the proposed bylaws lack all
        significance. Unless indeed the purpose of this change is to say
        that OASIS will now engage in the development of tennis
        standards, winter crops methodologies, or insecticide dispersal
        policies.

      

    
By declaring implicitly that the
        current focus on structured information standards is to be
        abandoned, while not declaring what the alternative(s) would be,
        OASIS becomes a purposeless, drifting, formless amoeba of an
        organization whose only goal is, apparently, to survive.

      

    
If that were to become the case I
        would immediately request that my name be withdrawn from the
        roster of members.

    
Eduardo Gutentag