<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is one of the reasons that we are reconstituting the chapter committees to follow the process we used for MPI-1 and MPI-2 - chapters (and the document) need to be considered as a whole. Votes should be on consistent parts of the document (typically but not always chapters). This is different than the process for the minor corrections to the standard in MPI 2.1 and MPI 2.2.<div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Richard Treumann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Do Forum members accept the philosophical principle that any ticket presented for a vote must stand on its own? </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">That is, a ticket should be rejected by the Forum if it requires the passage of some pending ticket to be made reasonable. The dependant ticket can be merged into the connected ticket before it is brought to the Plenary session. </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">(Perhaps it can be clearly marked as "Approval of tickets x, y, z are all prerequisites for voting this")</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Thanks - Dick </font> <br> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dick Treumann - MPI Team <br> IBM Systems & Technology Group<br> Dept X2ZA / MS P963 -- 2455 South Road -- Poughkeepsie, NY 12601<br> Tele (845) 433-7846 Fax (845) 433-8363<br> </font><span><ATT00001..txt></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>William Gropp</div><div>Deputy Director for Research</div><div>Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies</div><div>Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science</div><div>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>