Subject: N 4215 - Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 4192, Change to the SC 22 P rogram of Work - Reducing ISO/IEC 9945 to a Single Part Standard

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:35:00 -0400

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

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4215 

TITLE: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 4192, Change to the SC 22 Program of
Work - Reducing ISO/IEC 9945 to a Single Part Standard

DATE ASSIGNED: 
2007-06-25 

SOURCE: 
SC 22 Secretariat 

BACKWARD POINTER: 
SC 22 N 4192

DOCUMENT TYPE: 
Summary of Voting 

PROJECT NUMBER: 

STATUS: 
As per the results of this ballot, ISO/IEC 9945 will be a single part
standard.  The SC 22 Secretariat will notify the ITTF of this change.

ACTION IDENTIFIER: 
FYI 

DUE DATE: 
N/A 

DISTRIBUTION: 
Text 

CROSS REFERENCE: 

DISTRIBUTION FORM: 
Def 

Address reply to: 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat 
Sally Seitz 
ANSI 
11 West 42nd 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:          SC22 N4192 
Circulated by:               JTC 1/SC22 
Circulation Date:            2007-03-21 
Closing Date:                2007-06-21 

SUBJECT:  SC 22 N 4192, Change to the SC 22 Program of Work - Reducing
ISO/IEC 9945 to a Single Part Standard

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The following responses have been received on the subject of approval: 

"P" Members supporting approval without comment                   
5 (Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Republic of Korea, Romania)
  
"P" Members supporting approval with comments              
2 (United Kingdom, United States) 

"P" Members not supporting approval       
0 

"P" Members abstaining                    
5 (Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland) 

"P" Members not voting  
7 (Austria, China, Denmark, France, Kazakhstan, Romania, Ukraine)

National Body Comments:

United Kingdom:
The UK position is that we strongly support this proposal to reduce ISO/IEC
9945 to a single part standard.  It has not been possible to claim
conformance to a single part of the four-part ISO/IEC POSIX 200x standard
since it was published.  It will also greatly improve readability and
usability to publish it as a single part.

United States:
Since the 2001 revision, it has not been possible to conform to a single
part of ISO/IEC 9945, and SC 22 has repeatedly asked for this standard to be
sold as a single package (see resolutions 05-16 and 06-24).  The normative
text in parts 1-3 currently state that conformance requires all three parts
of 9945 (part 4 is informative rationale only).

The 2001 revision was intended to be a single standard, and was introduced
to JTC 1 as such.  ITTF chose to split it into four parts for publishing
convenience, without balloting to change the program of work.

This standard is not four parts but a single part.

Sally Seitz
Program Manager
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 212 642 4918
Fax: 212 840 2298