N0931 - Voting summary N907 - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0931

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

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TITLE:	Summary of Voting on JTC 1/SC 34 N 907 - Letter Ballot due 2007-11-10 - Category A Liaison with the XML Guild
SOURCE:	SC34 Secretariat
STATUS:	Summary of voting
ACTION:	Based on a count of the approving ballot responses, this liaison is APPROVED. The disapproval comments have been sent to the XML Guild for their assessment and consideration for any changes in the original request.
DATE:	2007-11-11
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO:	N0907 - 2007-09-10 - Letter Ballot due 2007-11-10 - 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

Summary

P-members to vote: 38

P-member votes cast (>=50%): 19 (50.0%)

Total votes cast: 16

P-member approvals (>=66%): 13 (81.2%)

Total disapprovals (<=25%): 3 (18.8%)

Detail

P-Member	APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT AS PRESENTED	DISAPPROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED	ABSTENTION (For Reasons Below)	NO RESPONSE
Bulgaria				X
Brazil				X
Canada	X
Switzerland	X
Côte-d'Ivoire				X
Chile				X
China	X
Colombia			X
Cyprus				X
Czech Republic	X
Germany				X
Denmark	X
Egypt				X
Finland	X
France				X
India				X
Italy	X
Japan		X
Kenya			X
Korea, Republic of	X
Kazakhstan				X
Lebanon				X
Sri Lanka				X
Malta			X
Netherlands		X
Norway	X
New Zealand				X
Pakistan				X
Poland	X
Romania	X
Sweden		X
Thailand				X
Turkey				X
Trinidad and Tobago				X
United Kingdom	X
USA	X
Venezuela				X
South Africa				X

Japan

The Liaason category should be changed to C liaiaon from the proposed A liaison, considering the activities of XML Guild.

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’.

According to the JTC1 directives (version 3.0), section 3.3.4.1.1, it follows that liaisons require organizations in question to be of significant size and relevance - especially so in case of an international context. XML Guild currently presents only about 20 individuals as members, wherefore Sweden regards such a liaison not to be compatible with existing ISO regulations.