Subject: CFV: comp.text.xml From: Neil Crellin <neilc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 06:07:01 -0400 (EDT) |
FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) unmoderated group comp.text.xml This CFV is to be distributed only by the votetaker. It is not to be posted to newsgroups, or mailed to mailing lists or individuals, except by the votetaker. Ballots or CFVs provided by anyone else will be invalid. Newsgroups line: comp.text.xml The Extensible Markup Language (XML). Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 14 Jul 1998. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: James Tauber <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx> Votetaker: Neil Crellin <neilc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> RATIONALE: comp.text.xml XML is a new language, and it appears that it will be extremely popular. Over the past few months, traffic on the XML-DEV and XML-L mailing lists has grown rapidly. With the release of the W3C Recommendation for XML 1.0, developer interest is growing rapidly and an increasing amount of software is being released. A newsgroup would make it much easier for a wider audience to participate in and benefit from these discussions. While it may appear at first that comp.text.sgml is appropriate, there will be those interested in XML who do not care about the arcana of SGML, and there will be those interested in SGML who do not care to see many basic questions about XML. CHARTER: comp.text.xml Comp.text.xml shall be an unmoderated newsgroup for the general discussion of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its application. This includes, but is not limited to the specifications and syntax, document creation and editing, interchange, software, processing and database integration. This applies not only to XML itself but also the Extensible Linking Language (XLL), the Extensible Style Language (XSL), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as applied to XML documents, and to document types and applications of XML. Policy on Advertising We encourage discussion of the merits and shortcomings of commercial products. A certain amount of advertising (both objective and advocative) is to be expected and this is to be encouraged as long as the products and services relate directly to XML and the announcements are brief. Company representatives are expected to participate in discussions of their product that they themselves did not initiate. Please refer to the widely available Internet literature on the subject of common net abuses (indiscriminate newsgroup spamming, multiple advertisement posting, and chain letters being among the most frequent). END CHARTER. IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: READ THIS BEFORE VOTING The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest in reading the proposed newsgroup, and soliciting votes from uninterested parties defeats this purpose. Do *not* distribute this CFV; intead, direct people to the official CFV as posted to news.announce.newgroups. Distributing specific voting instructions or pre-marked copies of this CFV is considered vote fraud. This is a public vote: All email addresses, names and votes will be listed in the final RESULT post. The name used may be either a real name or an established Usenet handle. At most one vote is allowed per person or per account. Duplicate votes will be resolved in favor of the most recent valid vote. Voters must mail their ballots directly to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded, or proxy votes are not valid, nor are votes mailed from WWW/HTML/CGI forms (which should not exist). Votes from nonexistent accounts are also invalid, and the votetaker will reject any "munged" address he cannot decipher immediately. Please direct any questions to the votetaker at <neilc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>. HOW TO VOTE: Extract the ballot from the CFV by deleting everything before and after the "BEGINNING OF BALLOT" and "END OF BALLOT" lines. Don't worry about the spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your reply inserts. Please, DO NOT send the entire CFV back to me! Fill in the ballot as shown below. Please provide your REAL NAME and indicate your desired vote in the appropriate locations inside the ballot. Examples of how to properly indicate your vote: [ YES ] example.yes.vote [ NO ] example.no.vote [ ABSTAIN ] example.abstention [ CANCEL ] example.cancellation DO NOT modify, alter or delete any information in this ballot! If you do, the voting software will probably reject your ballot. When finished, MAIL the ballot to: < voting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Just "replying" to this message should work, but check the "To:" line. If you do not receive an acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker about the problem. You are responsible for reading your ack and making sure your vote is registered correctly. If these instructions are unclear, please consult the Introduction to Usenet Voting or the Usenet Voting FAQ at http://www.stanford.edu/~neilc/uvv. ======== BEGINNING OF BALLOT: Delete everything before this line ======= .----------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1ST CALL FOR VOTES: comp.text.xml | Official Usenet Voting Ballot <CTX-0001> (Do not remove this line!) |----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Please provide your real name, or your vote may be rejected. Place | ONLY your name (ie. do NOT include your e-mail address or any other | information; ONLY your name) after the colon on the following line: Voter name: | Insert YES, NO, ABSTAIN, or CANCEL inside the brackets for each | newsgroup listed below (do not delete the newsgroup name): Your Vote Newsgroup --------- ----------------------------------------------------------- [ ] comp.text.xml ======== END OF BALLOT: Delete everything after this line ============== DISTRIBUTION: In addition to the groups named in the Newsgroups: header, the CFV and the eventual RESULT posts will be mailed to these mailing lists: Mailing list name: xml-dev Submission address: xml-dev@xxxxxxxx Request address: majordomo@xxxxxxxx (body: subscribe xml-dev email) Mailing list name: XML-L Submission address: XML-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Request address: LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (body: SUBSCRIBE XML-L First Last) Mailing list name: xsl-list Submission address: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Request address: Majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (body: subscribe xsl-list) This CFV was created with uvpq 1.0 (Aug 14 1997). PQ datestamp: 980322 -- Voting address: voting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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