tnixon@hayes.uucp (Toby Nixon) (11/25/90)
In article <1990Nov21.093701.15396@santra.uucp>, jjj@blob.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) writes: > According to my knowledge CCITT has just standardized the proposed V.32bis > standard?? At least the standardizing session should have been during this > month if I'm not completely wrong? At its meeting in October, CCITT Study Group XVII agreed to apply the Resolution 2 "accelerated approval procedures" to draft recommendation V.32bis. This means that the draft was agreed to by all of the technical experts present at the meeting, and that no voting member (Administration or RPOA) raised an objection. The CCITT Secretariat has one month to translate the document into the official CCITT languages, and it is then mailed out to all CCITT voting members for a written ballot. They have three months in which to consider the proposed recommendation and return their ballots. Of the ballots returned (and there is NO minimum "quorum" requirement), 70% must be affirmative in order for V.32bis to be formally adopted. This determination will be made around the end of February, 1991. In practice, once a study group has accepted a draft recommendation, it is highly unlikely that it would not be approved in the written ballot. Thus, manufacturers are willing to go ahead and announce products based on the draft, even though it is not actually formally adopted until the written ballot closes successfully. -- Toby Nixon, Principal Engineer | Voice +1-404-449-8791 Telex 151243420 Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. | Fax +1-404-447-0178 CIS 70271,404 P.O. Box 105203 | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon AT&T !tnixon Atlanta, Georgia 30348 USA | Internet hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net