FINAL REMINDER: Motion P1788/M0036.03:Flavors ends Sunday
P1788,
FINAL REMINDER: Voting on Motion 36.03 Flavors will continue through Sunday, September 9.
Current tally: Yes: 22; No: 19. Very close. Required for quorum: 25. I have double-checked the tally against my saved email messages, so I believe my count is correct.
In some ways, this may be THE defining motion of our standardization effort. EVERYONE should vote.
Recall that our Policies and Procedures allows you to vote multiple times; the most recent vote you cast is the one that counts, so changing ones mind (multiple times, even) is permitted.
Also recall that our Policies and Procedures specify that if you miss two consecutive votes, you are no longer a Voting Members (although reinstatement is easy). That is so that motions do not fail for lack of quorum.
PLEASE VOTE if you are a Voting Member and have not already done so.
As has been my practice, "will continue through Sunday, September 9" is interpreted to end when Sept. 9 rolls off the face of the earth under the International Date Line. Since I am at GMT+6, I interpret that as 6:00 AM MY time on Sept. 10. That means our European friends may vote when they get to work on Monday morning. Not so in the US and Canada.
George Corliss,
Voting Tabulator
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Motion P1788/M0036.03:Flavors - voting period begins
> Date: August 20, 2012 7:54:47 AM CDT
> To: stds-1788 <stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> P-1788:
>
> The voting period herewith
> begins. Voting will continue until after Sunday, September 9, 2012.
> Voting on this motion will proceed according to the rules for
> position papers (quorum and simple majority).
> Comment can continue during voting, but the motion
> cannot be changed during voting.
>
> Juergen: Please update the web page with this action.
>
> Acting secretary: Please record the transaction in the minutes.
>
> The motion, as well as its rationale, appears in the private
> area of the IEEE P-1788 site:
>
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/private/Motions/AllMotions.html
>
> As usual, please contact me if you need the password to the private
> area.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Baker (acting as chair, P-1788)