LX/05-0024

InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005
Telephone 202-737-8888; Fax 202-638-4922



June 17, 2005

To: Dr. Donald Deutsch, Mr. Toshihiro Suzuki and Mr. Wim Coekhaerts - Oracle Corporation
From: Dave Thewlis, Chairman INCITS Study Group on Linux
Subject: Notification of Oracle Membership Jeopardy - INCITS Study Group on Linux



Your organization’s membership on the INCITS Study Group on Linux is currently in jeopardy due to failure of its representative(s) to attend two out of three successive meetings.

In accordance with the INCITS/RD-2 (Section 4.2.4.2), voting members of Study Groups shall be terminated under the following conditions:
a.    The principal and all alternate representative(s) shall be warned in writing upon failure of the organization to:
1.    attend two out of three successive meetings, in that case the membership shall be terminated if not represented at the next meeting; or
2.    return two out of three successive non accelerated letter ballots if the next non accelerated letter ballot (identified by LB number) after the warning is not returned,
An organization fails to perform an above action when none of the organization's representatives performs the action.

b.    Voting and advisory memberships shall be canceled by the INCITS Secretariat for failure to pay appropriate service fees within the time specified by the INCITS Secretariat.
If special circumstances exist that prevent your ability to comply with the membership criteria in item a) above, the INCITS Study Group may vote to retain your membership.

If your membership is in jeopardy for reasons specified in a) above and you allow your membership to lapse, you can re-obtain voting membership by attending two out of three consecutive Study Group meetings.

For your information, the next meeting of the INCITS Study Group on Linux will be held by teleconference on Friday, June 24, 2005 at 1:00 PM eastern:

Please notify me as to whether you will be attending this next meeting in order to retain your membership status.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Dave Thewlis
Chair, INCITS Study Group on Linux