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- Submitted-by: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
-
- Hal Jespersen adds the following to my report (Volume 22, Number 92):
- >
- > 4. The requirement for IEEE membership appears recently to
- > have been dropped, although the rule book has yet to be
- > amended.
- >
- This was an incorrect annoucement at the IEEE COmputer Society
- Standards Coordinating Committee (SCC) meeting. The Stds Board
- disapproved this idea.
- >
- > - Once a balloting group has been formed, it persists
- > indefinitely with a static membership. Only if there
- > are problems in getting the required 75% response to
- > ballots is the membership of a group reviewed.
- >
- The 75% response rule is only for the first ballot. During recirculations,
- considerably less paper can flow. And does.
-
- (Recirculation ballots occur to check the acceptability of the amendments
- which have been made to a draft standard as a result of the the
- objections and comments received in a previous round of balloting.
- While these amendments are generally intended to change negative votes
- into positive, it is possible that they may have the reverse effect if
- it turns out that balloters object strongly to some of the changes.
- Recirculation ballots check that more, rather than less, consensus is
- being achieved.)
-
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- Dominic Dunlop
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 102
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-