| 1992 | Capital Equiment Corp. makes a high-speed 488 proposal to TC-8 (added by J. Czapski) |
| 1993 | National Instruments makes a high-speed 488 proposal to TC-8 (added by J. Czapski) |
| Sep 1994 | TC-8 Voted to
Sponsor the 488.1 Working Group (Only one negative vote) |
| Dec 1994 | IEEE NesCom
rejected 488.1 Project Authorization Request (PAR) (this was caused by a letter filed with NesCom from an IEC representative) |
| Feb 1995 | TC-8 Chair (Bob Cram) responds to the rejection via a letter to the NesCom |
| June 1995 | IEEE NesCom approved the PAR |
| Aug 1995 | First Working Group meeting in Atlanta, GA (see minutes) |
| Feb 1996 | Second Working Group meeting in Austin, TX (see minutes) |
| Mar/Apr 1996 | Circulated Draft 1.1 for comment and/or approval |
| Aug 1996 | Circulated Draft 1.2 for
comment and/or approval (Chris McKenna submits an alternative proposal) |
| Dec 1996 | Circulated Draft 1.3 & Chris McKenna proposal for comment and/or approval |
| Jan 1997 | Over 75% of the voting
working group members approved of continuing with Draft 1.3. Draft 1.3 is turned over to the TC-8 for submittal to the IEEE Standards Association. |
| Aug 1997 | IEEE Standards
Association (SA) called for ballot participation. TC-8 chair (Marlyn Miner) & IEEE-SA worked to resolve unbalanced voter pool. |
| Sep 1997 | P488.1 Working Group presented the draft to DKE members in Germany. |
| Nov 1998 | IEEE Standards Association was forced to call for ballot participation again with guidelines to prevent an unbalanced voter pool. |
| July 1999 | IEEE-SA conducts a formal ballot and the draft is approved by over 75% of the voters. |
| March 2000 | Majority of
voters approve P488.1 after reading the negative
balloters comments. A Coordination Verification complaint is filed on behalf of IEC to IEEE. P488.1 becomes part of the agenda for the March 29th RevCom meeting. Nine days before RevCom meeting, three IEEE members filed a complaint (listing 9 procedural issues) with the IEEE Standards Board and asking to invalidate the P488.1 ballot. The RevCom chair dismissed 8 of the complaints; however, he asked the TC-8 chair to withdraw P488.1 from the March 29th agenda and resolve the one remaining issue; that issue being that the responses to negative ballots were not approved by the TC-8. |