ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0907

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

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TITLE:	Letter Ballot due 2007-11-10 - Category A Liaison with the XML Guild
SOURCE:	SC34 Secretariat
STATUS:	Letter Ballot
ACTION:	P-members please return your vote directly to the SC 34 Secretariat by due date; this is not a default ballot and this does require a response from all P-members. Note that this a re-issue of N0870 due to a lack of sufficient response from participating members. All members have an obligation to vote (including those who voted on the earlier ballot that received an insufficient response).
DATE:	2007-09-10
DISTRIBUTION:	P-members of the committee for voting
REFER TO:	N0854 - 2007-03-24 - Default letter ballot due 2007-06-24: Resolution for JTC1/SC34 Category A Liaison with the XML Guild N0870 - 2007-07-03 - Letter Ballot due 2007-09-03 - Category A Liaison with the XML Guild N0902 - 2007-09-07 - Summary of Voting on JTC 1/SC 34 N 870 - 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

Letter Ballot due 2007-11-10 - Category A Liaison with the XML Guild

There were many responses to document N0854 titled "Default letter ballot due 2007-06-24: Resolution for JTC1/SC34 Category A Liaison with the XML Guild", all except one were in favour of establishing the Liaison.

The following comment was received from the Netherlands national body:

herewith the comments of the Netherlands on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 N854:

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. 

According to Directives 9.1.6 "If any P-member objects to the question during this period, the question will be decided by a vote, either at a meeting or by letter ballot", this single negative response triggers the requirement now for a formal letter ballot from all SC34 P-members soliciting an explicit approve/disapprove response.

In correspondence with the JTC 1 Secretariat, I gather the liaison organization is invited to include a response to this comment for the information of voting members. As a member myself and author of the original liaison submission from the XML Guild, my comments to these observations by the Netherlands is that in fact the membership is broadly based with members from many countries and there has been participation by a number of XML Guild members, through their respective national bodies, in past work of SC34. The formal Category A liaison status would allow all members of the XML Guild to contribute and share their expertise with the working groups of SC34.

The original 60-day formal letter ballot period ended with an insufficient number of P-members submitting their vote, thus according to Directives 9.1.10 the ballot failed according to procedural rules and not according to the resonses that were actually received (of which there was only a single disapproval, unchanged from the default ballot cycle).

This repeat 60-day formal letter ballot begins today and all P-members are requested to submit their approval/disapproval by an email to jtc1sc34@scc.ca before 2007-11-10.