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P1788, Motion P1788/M0039.01:IntroductoryText is currently under vote through Sunday, Dec. 23. If you are about to leave on holiday, PLEASE VOTE FIRST. Current tally: Yes - 5; No - 1; Needed to pass: 34 Recall that under our Policies and Procedures, you are dropped as a Voting Member if you fail to vote on two consecutive motions. Reinstatement is easy. Baker's call to vote is appended below. Also, his recent clarification of the various motions currently under consideration. George Corliss P1788 Vote Tabulator Begin forwarded message: > From: Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Motion P1788/M0039.01:IntroductoryText -- voting period begins > Date: December 2, 2012 3:21:12 PM CST > To: John Pryce <prycejd1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stds-1788 <stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > P-1788: > > The discussion period for this motion has ended, and > voting herewith commences. Voting will continue until > after Sunday, December 23, 2012. > Voting on this motion will proceed according to the > RULES FOR STANDARD TEXT. That is, > > 1. a 2/3 majority is necessary for the motion to pass, > > 2. any NO votes MUST be accompanied by an explanation of and > a corresponding commitment to the changes would cause > the voter to change the "NO" vote to "YES". > > The motion cannot be changed during voting. > > I attach the motion, with the friendly amendments and corrections > John posted on November 30. > > > Juergen: Please post the updated motion and update the web page > to indicate that voting has begun. (Also, the motion > is internally labeled as 6.1, while it is presently > entitled 5-2 on the web page.) > > Acting secretary: Please record the transaction in the minutes. > > The motion 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) > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Begin forwarded message: > From: Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Additional clarification Re: motions 39, 40, 41, and 42. > Date: December 18, 2012 7:31:53 AM CST > To: stds-1788 <STDS-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > P-1788: > > There may still be some confusion about what we are discussion > and upon what we will vote regarding specific motions. This may > be due to partially to the fact that portions of the draft text > other than those relevant to the actual motion were posted with > some of the motions, and also, one or more of the participants > in the discussion may have referred to incorrect motion numbers. Again: > > 1. Motion 39 -- presently under vote -- deals with relatively uncontroversial > wording of the introduction. I anticipate at most minor wording changes > to result from the discussion. > > 2. Motion 40 -- presently under discussion -- deals ONLY with 1.7 and 1.8 > of the standards text, that is, general requirements for bindings of the P-1788 standard > to programming environments and programming languages. I anticipate > at most minor wording changes to result from the discussion. > > 3. Motion 41 -- presently under discussion -- deals with clause 2. The only > controversial part of this clause is 2.5, decorations. However, 2.5 does > not specify the details of decorations, but only gives the motivation and > basic ideas underlying decorations, as an introduction to the actual > detailed specifications. The detailed specifications will occur in Clause 8. > I anticipate at most minor wording changes to result from the discussion. > > 4. Motion 42 -- presently under discussion -- deals with clause 8, where details > of the decoration system occur. It is in this clause I anticipate us > to be doing the most active work at present. > > Best regards, > > Baker > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Ralph 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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