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In article <34282515.B453CF10@pagesmiths.com> "James P. White"
<jim@pagesmiths.com> writes:

> The real issue that will cause Sun to lose in the second vote just as
> they did in the first is that Sun wants to retain maintenance of the
> standard definition so that they can continue to revise the Java API
> singlehandedly ("open" being a word which means exactly what they want
> it to mean).  Nearly every ISO member commented that Sun would need to
> release maintenance to some other organization, such as an ISO JTC1
> subcommittee, in order to be accepted as the Submitter.  Sun's answer is
> that they will not.

Hmmm. Are you sure about this? Their Web site,
<http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/standardization/response1.html>,
says that:

  Sun agrees with the National Bodies that JTC1 must control any
  International Standard that results from a PAS submission by Sun and
  that maintenance of the standard must be carried out with the approval
  and consensus of the National Bodies following established JTC1
  procedures.
...
  Sun proposes that a JTC1 Working Group be created that will be
  responsible for all aspects of maintenance including: handling defect
  reports, writing draft technical corrigenda, writing draft amendments,
  and carrying out the 5-year periodic review of the International
  Standard.

which sounds like exactly the negative of what you just said.

--
Geoff Keating <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>