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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 18 Apr 91 02:57:12 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 2
Message 145       Tue Apr 16, 1991
R.BERKEY                     at 23:01 PDT
 
  Zarko Berberski writes, 91-04-09,

 > If something is a draft proposal it is NOT EXPECTED to be final,
 > otherwise there would be no point of having that draft and I think
 > that no one needs 500% IQ to realise that simple logical fact.

This is incorrect: the term "dpANS" has a specific technical meaning.  The
dpANS is the ultimate act of an X3 Subgroup Technical Committee (TC), such as
X3.J14.  When all goes well, the TC never sees the document again.

Should the document be returned to the TC, the procedural rules change.
Whereas before only a majority vote was required in the TC for changes to the
document, that now becomes 2/3rds.  The first time a dpANS is out for public
review, the public gets four months to comment on it.  After that, public
review periods are only for two months.

Robert Berkey
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