[P1619-2] [Fwd: E-MOTION 2008-09, Advance 1619.2/D9 to IEEE Sponsor Ballot]

[Fabio Maino <fmaino@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: P1619.2 BALLOT

A reminder that the 1619.2 ballot will close this friday January 9th at 5 PM.

I haven't received a vote from the following companies yet:

Brocade
Dell
Emulex
HDS
HP
Lexar Media
LSI Logic
Optica
PGP Corporation
PMC Sierra
RSA Security/EMC
StrongAuth
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
Thales/nCipher
Voltage Security
Vormetric
Wave Systems
WinMagic

Thanks,
Fabio

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	E-MOTION 2008-09, Advance 1619.2/D9 to IEEE Sponsor Ballot
Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:34:05 -0800
From:	Fabio Maino <fmaino@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	SISWG <stds-p1619@xxxxxxxx>
CC:	Matt Ball <matt.ball@xxxxxxxx>, james hughes <Jim.P.Hughes@xxxxxxx>, Eric Hibbard <Eric.Hibbard@xxxxxxx>

IEEE P1619.2 E-MOTION 2008-09: Approve P1619.2/D9 to advance to IEEE Sponsor Ballot.
Votes MUST be sent by email to the group secretary: Fabio Maino [fmaino at cisco.com].
Also, please CC the mailing list stds-p1619 at IEEE.ORG only for those votes that have a comment attached.
Please format your e-mail vote as follows:

<COMPANY NAME>
<Name of voting WG member>
<Vote: Yes/No/Abstain>
<COMMENTS>

To simplify processing, the subject of the mail should be "P1619.2 BALLOT".  Comments may be received in any format, such as adobe comment file (.fdf) or as comments in an excel spreadsheet (attached). Adobe comment file is the preferred format. Remember that "No" votes must have a comment attached to be considered valid.

E-MOTION 2008-09: Approve P1619.2/D9 to advance to IEEE Sponsor Ballot

The IEEE Security in Storage Working Group authorizes the IEEE P1619.2 editor to submit draft D9 with approved changes for sponsor ballot.  This motion allows for editorial changes and minor corrections to be made to the draft before ballot without a re-vote in the working group. If after approval of this motion, major changes to P1619.2 are deemed necessary by the working group, this vote shall be voided and a new vote shall be required for the working group to submit the draft standard to sponsor ballot.

Timeline:

E-Voting opens: December 12th, 2008, 5 pm PDT
E-Voting closes: January 9th, 2009, 5 pm PDT

Eligible E-voters:

Brocade
Cisco
Dell
Emulex
HDS
HP
IBM
Lexar Media
LSI Logic
nCipher
NetApp
Optica
PGP Corporation
PMC Sierra
RSA Security/EMC
SafeNet
Seagate
StrongAuth
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
Voltage Security
Vormetric
Wave Systems
WinMagic

The voting is "per company", as it has been always the case in the P1619.2 workgroup.

Tabulation of votes:

For the motion to pass, we must have:
"Yes" votes >= (2/3) * (24 - abstains)

The following paragraph is a quote from the "Operating Procedures for P1619" document:

When conducting a Working Group ballot on a draft document, each voting
Working Group member shall vote one of the following positions:

1. Affirmative (with or without comments)
2. Do Not Approve
   (Negative With Comments - the reasons for a negative vote shall be given and shall include specific wording or actions that, if implemented, would resolve the objection)
3. Abstain

Please use adobe comment files (.fdf, preferred format) or the attached spreadsheet when preparing comments.

P1619.2/D9 is available at:
https://siswg.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=155&Itemid=41
https://siswg.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=154&Itemid=41  (with changebars)


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Thanks!

Fabio Maino
Cisco Systems
425 East Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
Work: 4088537530

Attachment: 1619_2_Comment_Disposition_Template.xls
Description: MS-Excel spreadsheet