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- Doug Gwyn writes:
- >Since it appears that 75% of the balloters have now voted yea
- >on draft 1003.1, we are in danger of getting a standard that
- >does not solve these fundamental portability problems.
-
- Just to clarify somewhat the rather confusing IEEE balloting
- procedure currently going on for 1003.1:
-
- 1003.1 is not a standard yet. 75% of the balloting quorum returned
- ballots during the initial thirty day period, and 75% of those were
- positive, allowing a ballot resolution period, which was set at ten
- days. There are claims that 77% positive ballots were received during
- that resolution period. But the period was too short for many people
- to respond, and there were other problems (all three of Institutional
- Representatives, from USENIX, /usr/group, and X/OPEN, as well as
- others, sent letters to the IEEE Standards Board pointing this out).
- There will be another resolution period, probably in April.
-
- At this point if you haven't already balloted, you can't. But there's
- still some time for improvements in 1003.1, and some problems may have
- been resolved at the 1003 meeting last week in D.C.
-
- The IEEE Standards Review Committee accepted 1003.1 as a conditional
- standard at their last meeting, a week or so ago. I don't know what
- that means, but I do know it does not mean that 1003.1 is a standard yet.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 28
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