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From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: responses to public comments?
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Date: 20 Oct 89 15:33:00 GMT
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X3J3 also believed that the responses from one public comment peiod had to be
sent out before beginning a new one.  We were told by people higher up in the
standards process that this was not the case, that it was necessary only to
approve the responses to be sent before the new draft went out.  Nevertheless,
X3J3 put in the effort to approve the responses at the same meeting that the
new draft was forwarded to X3 (last May).  At that time, X3J3 believed that
those responses would be sent out before its next meeting in July (and thus,
before the start of the second public comment period).  Unfortunately, the
process of compiling responses written by 5 different subcommittees into
response letters has proved more difficult than anticipated.  (In internal
committee correspondence, I noticed that the SF earthquake is now contributing
to the problems.)

The last I heard, all but a handful of the letters are expected to be mailed
Monday, October 23.  The remainder will presumably be mailed as soon as the
problems in their production are resolved.