LX/05-0029

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



September 26, 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 Change to Advisory Member on the INCITS Study Group on Linux



Oracle has failed to attend three successive meetings of the INCITS Study Group on Linux is, after being notified in letter LX/05-0024 that its membership was in jeopardy.

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.
The Secretariat has approved changing Oracle's membership to Advisory Member status rather than termination, and the Secretariat database will be changed to reflect this.

Best regards,

Dave Thewlis
Convenor, INCITS Study Group on Linux