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From: [e-mail] (Bill Aten)
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Subject: CFV: comp.object.corba
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Date: 1 Mar 1996 01:40:32 -0000
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                     FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
                 unmoderated group comp.object.corba

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comp.object.corba    OMG CORBA standard.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 22 Mar 1996.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  Questions about
the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.

Proponent: Silvano Maffeis <[e-mail]>
Mentor: Mark James <[e-mail]>
Votetaker: Bill Aten <[e-mail]>

RATIONALE: comp.object.corba

OMG CORBA appears to be one of the most important standards for open
distributed systems.  More and more CORBA-related postings are appearing
on Usenet.  However, due to the lack of a CORBA newsgroup, the discussion
is scattered over a variety of newsgroups, mailing lists, and Web pages.
There is an increasing number of people looking for information on CORBA.
However, they often have difficulties reaching CORBA experts, as many of
the CORBA mailing lists are OMG-internal or only known to CORBA experts.
The purpose of the CORBA Usenet group is to make discussions on the topic
more accessible to the entire network community.

CHARTER: comp.object.corba

The unmoderated newsgroup comp.object.corba is to be used for technical
discussions, announcements, expression of opinions, and questions that are
related with the OMG CORBA standard.  It also serves as a medium for those
interested in sharing and exchanging their experience with CORBA products.

Possible discussion issues include these aspects of CORBA:

- CORBA questions
- Experience reports
- Product evaluations
- Component-ware
- Cross-Platform Development
- Plug-and-Play CORBA objects
- Announcement of new CORBA documents
- Determining CORBA interfaces for commonly needed services
- New language mappings for CORBA IDL
- Need-to-have and nice-to-have features of CORBA Object Request Brokers
- CORBA business objects
- Integration of legacy information systems into CORBA applications
- CORBA frameworks
- The future of CORBA
- Announcement of OMG CORBA meetings that are open to the public
- Seminar announcements

END CHARTER.

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Examples of how to properly indicate your vote:

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DO NOT alter, modify, or delete any other information in this ballot!
If you do, the voting software will probably reject your vote.


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information; ONLY your name) on the next line beside "Voter name:".
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IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES:

Standard Guidelines for voting apply.  Only one vote per person, no
more than one vote per account.  Votes must be mailed directly from
the voter to the votetaker.  Anonymous, forwarded, or proxy votes
are not valid.  Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered
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is registered correctly.  Duplicate votes are resolved in favor of
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will be published in the final voting results post.

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moderator, and the proponent (if specifically authorized by the votetaker)
are permitted to distribute copies of this CFV.

Distribution of pre-marked or otherwise modified copies of this CFV is
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votetaker.

DISTRIBUTION:

The only official sources for copies of this CFV are the locations listed
below and the votetaker's e-mail CFV server which can be reached at
<[e-mail]>.

This CFV has been cross-posted to:
  news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.databases,
  comp.databases.object, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.smalltalk, comp.object,
  comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole, comp.soft-sys.middleware.opendoc

The 1st CFV will also appear on the following mailing lists:

        CORBA Developers Mailing List
           Submission address: [e-mail]

        OMG Technical Committee
           Submission address: [e-mail]

        SUN/NEO Mailing List
           Submission address: [e-mail]

        OMG ORB Group
           Submission address: [e-mail]

        OMG Business Objects Group
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        ORB Gateway Mailing List
           Submission address: [e-mail]