ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0902

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

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TITLE:	Summary of Voting on JTC 1/SC 34 N 870 - Letter Ballot due 2007-09-03 - Category A Liaison with the XML Guild
SOURCE:	SC34 Secretariat
STATUS:	Summary of voting
ACTION:	Based on an insufficient response from the SC 34 participating membership, this ballot has automatically failed according to Directives 9.1.10 that states "if more than 50% of the P-members have not voted, the vote will have failed." Late votes are not counted and there are no extensions to the vote.
DATE:	2007-09-07
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO:	N0870 - 2007-07-03 - Letter Ballot due 2007-09-03 - Category A Liaison with the XML Guild
REPLY TO:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 Network: masonjd@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.y12.doe.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ Mr. G. Ken Holman (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat - Standards Council of Canada) Crane Softwrights Ltd. Box 266, Kars, ON K0A-2E0 CANADA Telephone: +1 613 489-0999 Facsimile: +1 613 489-0995 Network: jtc1sc34@scc.ca http://www.jtc1sc34.org

Netherlands

NEN is against a Category A liaison between JTC 1/SC 34 and the XML Guild because:

• XML Guild is a group of experts and not a ‘broadly based regional organization’ as required by the JTC 1 directives (3.3.4.1);
• XML is one of the subjects in JTC 1/SC 34 but not the main subject as required by the directives (3.3.42) ‘ Organizations which make an effective contribution * for most of the questions dealt with by the committee’.