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From: Steve Carson <carson@siggraph.org>
Subject: PNG NP Vote has failed in JTC 1 
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The PNG NP has failed. Only the US, UK and Japan voted to participate,
giving us only 3 of the necessary 5 votes! Only one country (Korea) voted
against accepting the item into the program of work and they provided no
reasons for their vote.

SubCommittee Name.:  JTC1           
Document Number...:  5244      
Backward pointer..:                                               
Document Type.....:  Summary of Voting/Table of Replies                
Date Assigned.....:  1998.03.27
Document Title....:  Summary of Voting on Document JTC 1 N 5112,       
                     Proposal for a New Work Item on PNG (Portable     
                     Network Graphics)                                 
Due Date..........:            
Pages.............:    2
Disk Serial No....:       
Source............:  JTC 1 Secretariat                                 
Project Number....:                   
Status............:  This proposal has failed to meet the criteria for 
                     acceptance into the JTC 1 Programme of Work.      
Action Identifier.:  FYI 
Medium............:       


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