Yes, I meant to have a second round because there was less than 100% voting. From the procedures: "3.2. Voting. Each member of ISO 639/JAC has one vote. Voting is obligatory. A vote must be unanimous for approval of an item. If there are abstentions, it shall not be considered unanimous approval. If a unanimous vote cannot be reached on an item, a second vote will be conducted following discussion. At least five positive votes are required to pass on the second ballot." Then it says later: "Failure to vote is considered an abstention (and thus a unanimous ballot cannot be reached with an abstention)." This is from our procedures, based on Annex A of the standard: http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac_n2r.html There was a case in the past before Gerhard joined when we had Mr. Vervoorn on the committee who did not respond to the voting. In those cases I did conduct a second ballot. Rebecca On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Håvard Hjulstad wrote: > My original proposal was to NOT have a second ballot for "Sichuan Yi", since > that has been approved by 100 % of the voting members that voted, and that I > don't expect that percentage to change in a second ballot. > > A second ballot would be needed for "Yi languages (other)" only, which did > not receive 100 %. I have invited JAC members to discuss this item. I do NOT > see any need to have another discussion of "Sichuan Yi". > > In other words: If the JAC approves these procedures, the "important" ballot > is finished, and we can add "Sichuan Yi" to our list. > > I am not quite sure how to interpret Rebecca's message: Do you find a need > for a formal second ballot of "Sichuan Yi"? If so, I shall gladly prepare > that immediately; I just thought it would be sufficient to do this by > "negative ballot": "if you don't say anything, you haven't changed your > mind". > > I will obviously not let the "Yi languages (other)" issue delay the "Sichuan > Yi" issue. > > Best regards, > Håvard > > ------------------------- > Håvard Hjulstad mailto:[log in to unmask] > Solfallsveien 31 > NO-1430 Ås, Norway > tel: +47 64963684 & +47 64944233 > mob: +47 90145563 > http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ > ------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf > Of Rebecca S. Guenther > Sent: 2. oktober 2002 21:34 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Jean-Arthur Creff -- and Yi > > > My comments were mainly about procedure and sticking to what our document > says we need to follow. > > Can you submit the evidence for the Yi languages (other) for the record? > It would be good to document that. > > I guess Michael is concerned about holding this up any further. If > necessary to have further discussion we could do 2 separate votes, one on > Sichuan Yi and the other on Yi languages (other). I am also interested in > finishing this quickly, since we are working on a new edition of the MARC > codes and would like to include these in that document if they are > approved. > > Rebecca >