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