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> From: Invisible [mailto:voi### [at] devnull]
> The last I heard, loads of people were rejecting the draft. (Indeed,
> signing up with ISO *just* to reject this one draft.) Not quite sure
> how
> it managed to pass...

It passed because MS paid a bunch of countries that previously had no
interest in the ISO to sign up just so they could vote for it.

IIRC, it caused some problems as those countries immediately stopped
participating after said vote.  Unfortunately for the ISO, sometimes
they require a majority vote to do things, and NOT a majority of voters
present, but a majority of all votes (in other words, an absentee or
abstaining vote counts as a "no" for those votes).  The ISO literally
ground to a halt until they decided what to do about non-participating
members.

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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