Subject: N 4064-Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 4016, Letter Ballot for Appro val of Resolution 05-30b: Progression of the Revision of ISO/IEC 15897, P rocedure for the Registration of Cultural Elements

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:40:38 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)
 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4064

TITLE:
Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 4016, Letter Ballot for Approval of Resolution
05-30b: Progression of the Revision of ISO/IEC 15897, Procedure for the
Registration of Cultural Elements

DATE ASSIGNED: 
2006-06-13

SOURCE: 
SC 22 Secretariat 

BACKWARD POINTER: 
N/A 

DOCUMENT TYPE: 
Summary of Voting 

PROJECT NUMBER: 

STATUS: This ballot has failed SC 22 balloting.  As per JTC 1/SC 22 document
N 4065, this project will be discussed and its progression decided upon at
the September 2006 JTC 1/SC 22 meeting in London.

ACTION IDENTIFIER: 
ACT 

DUE DATE: 
N/A 

DISTRIBUTION: 
Text 

CROSS REFERENCE: 
SC 22 N4016

DISTRIBUTION FORM: 
Def 

Sally Seitz
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY  10036
Telephone:  (212) 642-4918
Fax:             (212) 840-2298
Email:  [email-masked] 

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SUMMARY OF VOTING ON
Letter Ballot Reference No:  SC22 N4016
Circulated by:                JTC 1/SC22 Circulation Date:           
2006-01-25 Closing Date:                 2006-04-25
SUBJECT: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 4016, Letter Ballot for the Approval
of Resolution 05-30b: Progression of the Revision of ISO/IEC 15897,
Procedure for the Registration of Cultural Elements

The following responses have been received on the subject of registration: 
"P" Members approve the resolution
3(China, Japan, United States)
"P" Members disapproving the resolution  
3(Denmark, Germany, Republic of Korea)
"P" Members abstaining
4(Austria, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom)
"P" Members not voting
9(Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Romania, Russian
Federation, Spain, Ukraine)

Comments Received:
Germany
Germany has the following comments on the above Letter Ballot.

It is not totally clear to the German NB what will happen if resolution
05-30b is rejected.  E-mails exchanged between the SC 22 Secretariat, the SC
22/WG 14 Convenor, German and Dutch standardizers on this topic leave the
impression on us that is not 100% clear to other parties either what will be
done if the result of this letter ballot is negative.

Since there is no obvious ample room for confusion and misinterpretation the
German NB adds this comment to our negative vote in order to make it clear
what Germany wants to see happening next.  

Germany's negative vote on resolution 05-30b has the following intention:
Germany wishes to see the revision of ISO/IEC 15897:1999 cancelled.  Germany
advocates withdrawing the standards ISO/IEDC 15897:1999 at the earliest
possible convenience.  

Sally Seitz
Program Manager
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 642-4918
Fax: (212) 840-2298
Email: [email-masked]