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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: standards development process
Message-ID: <7688@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 14 Apr 88 21:47:54 GMT
References: <12960@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12960@brl-adm.ARPA> dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) writes:
>Are comments the only form of input a non-ANSI member has to an ANSI
>committee/standard?  The comments are a good idea, but X3J11 is not
>bound use them.  It seems like a public ballot would be reasonable.
>Isn't that what IEEE does?

Restricting balloting to actively participating members is a good idea
for the same reasons as those that led our (USA) founding fathers to
set up a representative republic instead of a democracy.  (Let's not
discuss why the original plan was subverted in this newsgroup, please!)