IEEE 1788 policies and procedures document up for official vote

["Corliss, George" <george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reminder: Voting on the attached Policies and Procedures closes in two weeks
on Nov. 27.  Please send a "yes" or "no" vote to George Corliss,
george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, by Nov. 27.


On Oct. 30, Baker had written:

IEEE P1788 members,

I have modified the Policies and Procedures document according
to suggestions I have received.  I attach a PDF of that document
and put it up for an official vote.  This will be according to
the following procedure:

1. Please send a "yes" or "no" vote to the vote tabulator
    (George Corliss, george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) within
    four weeks.  (This would be by November 27, but the vote
    tabulator has the discretion to extend this.)
    [From Vote Tabulator: Voting ends Nov. 27]

2. Any ³no² votes on portions of the document shall be accompanied by
    proposed changes that would cause the ³no²-voting party to vote ³yes.²

3. If you had previously voted on the earlier version, please
    vote again on this version, because there have been substantial
    changes.

4. We intend to adopt this document with a 2/3 favorable vote.
   [From Vote Tabulator: P&P says that is 2/3 of those registered
   to vote, not of those voting.]

I will not stop the vote this time until the deadline is reached.

Once we affirm the document, we will send it to the Sponsor (IEEE MSC)
for approval.  Then, we'll be officially in business, proceeding with
voting and approving positions and actual text of the standards
document.

In the mean time, people who have positions should be
thinking about submitting position papers to the officers
(technical editors and archivists).  You should crystallize
your informal contributions to the mailing list into a
clear document, which we will assign a number and make publicly
available via web interface.  That way, we can call for official
votes on them.  Through this mechanism, for example, we would
decide on guidance to word the standard according to "infinity
is not part of the underlying number system" (or the opposite).

Best wishes,

R. Baker Kearfott
(acting chair, IEEE P-1788)
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R. Baker Kearfott,    rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx   (337) 482-5346 (fax)
(337) 482-5270 (work)                     (337) 993-1827 (home)
URL: http://interval.louisiana.edu/kearfott.html
Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(Room 217 Maxim D. Doucet Hall, 1403 Johnston Street)
Box 4-1010, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010, USA
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