JTC1/SC22/WG15 N630
						Date: 1996-03-08

Title: Danish comments to the WG15/PASC syncronization plan
Source: Danish Standards
Distribution: WG15

Here are the specific Danish comments to the WG15/PASC syncronization plan.
We refer to our earlier documents for further information.

> 1.2.	Mature draft documents will also be distributed for review and
	 comment within WG15, and prior to a request for CD registration,
	 the US national body will have a draft distributed to SC22 for
	 review and comment.

Change to: 
	Technical mature drafts are sent to the ISO process for CD
	stage balloting.

> 2.2.6 Early working draft distribution (1.1)
 
	This should be changed to a CD stage registration ballot.
	The rules outlined there is very close to what is intended with
	a CD stage registration ballot in ISO.
 
	Some text: "when a document is mature enough to go to the first
	ballot in PASC, it should be sent for CD registration ballot in
	SC22, after acceptance in WG15 for CD registration."
 
> 3. Synchronization of balloting periods

> The PASC Chair (chair of PASC-SEC) has the authority to delay steps in
  the IEEE balloting process. This is being used to force synchronization
  with ISO approval as follows:
  3.1. For new documents and revisions (CD-DIS-IS path):
  3.1.1 The IEEE balloting period is started when the document is ready for
	 broad comment; at this time this draft document will be forwarded
	 to SC22 for review and comment.<P>
 
Change to:
 
   3.1.1 The IEEE balloting period is started when the document is ready for
	 broad comment; at this time this draft document will be forwarded to
	 WG15 for acceptance for CD registration ballot.

> 3.1.2. The U.S. will recommend, to WG15, for registration as CD, a document
	 draft which includes revisions resulting from a draft circulated for
	 IEEE balloting.<P>
 
Change to:

   3.1.2 The U.S. will recommend, to WG15, for CD stage ballot, a document
	 draft which includes revisions resulting from a draft circulated
	 for IEEE balloting and CD registration stage ballot.

> 3.1.3. The international comments on the CD are fed into the IEEE balloting
	 process; and IEEE recommendations for changes are fed into the CD
	 process as comments from the US national body.

Change to:

	The IEEE comments and IEEE recommendations for changes are fed into
	the ISO CD process as comments from the US national body.

Add a new paragraph:

	IEEE will inform WG15 of further ballots and drafts available, and
	WG15 may chose to send such a draft to CD stage ballot. CD stage
	disposition of comments are done by WG15 as for the first CD stage
	ballot, with IEEE comments on the draft and IEEE recommendations for
	changes fed into the ISO CD process as comments from the US national
	body.

> 3.1.4. The IEEE final approval is delayed until a disposition of comments
	 satisfactory to WG15 can be developed that will permit an updated
	 draft to be registered as a DIS. Once WG15 has made this agreement
	 the same document is forwarded for IEEE approval. (This assumes that
	 IEEE will reach 75% before WG15 has completed its part... which might
	 not always be the case.)

Change to:

  3.1.4. A draft is put to DIS ballot in JTC1 when it has reached a technical
	and editorial stable stage, and the ISO CD ballot comments have been
	addressed adequately via a disposition of comments document. This is
	anticipated to happen well before IEEE reaches a 75 % level of
	acceptance. IEEE may produce further drafts for ballot to obtain the
	required 75 % acceptance, and the WG15 convener will uphold the
	publication of the IS till both a 75 % acceptance level is reached in
	IEEE and the document conforms to an acceptable disposition of
	comments from WG15.

> 3.1.5. Approval of the DIS and  the IEEE work in ANSI will run in parallel.
	 If substantive feedback is received in the DIS ballot, and WG15
	 proposes substantive changes to the document, a PAR in IEEE will be
	 initiated by the U.S. member body to revise the IEEE document to
	 correspond with the ISO document changes.

This is superceded by 3.1.4

end of document.