From Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 20 18:25:53 1997 Received: from oxmail4.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA16587 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:25:47 +0100 Received: from ermine.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:24:28 +0000 Received: from [163.1.85.1] (com1.etrc.ox.ac.uk [163.1.85.1]) by ermine.ox.ac.uk (1.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA02185 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:25:27 GMT X-Sender: mellis@ermine.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:28:46 +0000 To: sc22wg5 From: Miles Ellis Subject: New JTC1 Procedures To avoid any confusion regarding references to a "first CD ballot within SC22" in recent emails from me I should mention that the new JTC1 procedures which were originally planned to come into operation last year are now being phased in. I shall provide more detailed information in my report to the Las Vegas meeting (which will be placed on the server) but for now I should simply say that under these new procedures there is a requirement that the "final" CD ballot is identified as such; the subsequent Final CD ballot (FCD) will be a four month ballot and will be the last stage at which ANY changes may be made. Following a successful FCD ballot there will be a two month confirmatory DIS ballot within JTC1 in which only YES and NO votes will be acceptable (without any comments). If the document fails this ballot then it will return for one, or more, CD ballots - ending with another FCD ballot. The only exception is that minor typos may be corrected after the DIS ballot. The expectation, therefore, is that documents will, henceforth, have at least two CD ballots, with the last one (FCD) being, in effect, similar to the previous DIS ballot in the sense that the document should be complete, but minor changes may still be made after the ballot. Miles Ellis WG5 Convenor Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Phone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527