[Numeric-interest] 754R ballot process restarted

[David Hough 754R work]

As explained below, the current 754R balloting process has produced more
changes than can be clearly encompassed with change bars, so a new ballot
group will be established and a new draft issued for additional cycle(s) of
comment.

This note is advanced warning of a forthcoming call for participation in a new
Sponsor Ballot group.
I hope that more persons with knowledge of language design and computational
applications programming will participate as balloters when the invitation
is opened.    
Note that participation in an IEEE Sponsor Ballot is a significant commitment,
not to be undertaken lightly:

 * Membership in IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
 or a participation fee must be paid.
 For IEEE members, IEEE-SA membership is an additional $35/year.

 * Sponsor Ballot group members <b>must</b> return ballots.
 The ballot fails if significant numbers
 of ballot group members fail to act.

 * NO ballots <b>must</b> be accompanied by lists of changes that would
 convert a NO ballot to a YES.

 * It is anticipated that there might be several cycles of balloting,
 response, revision, and resubmittal.

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From: Bob Davis
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Cc: "C/MSC/754_WG Chair" <bob at scsi.com>, "C/MSC Project Staff Liaison" <m.zaman at ieee.org>
Subject: P754 has been terminated by the sponsor


This notification is to advise you that the
P754 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
sponsor has decided to terminate this ballot due to

The current draft of the P754 Standard for Floating Point Arithmetic has change significantly from the review of comments received and reorganization into a more organized document.  These changes were driven by more than 400 comments on the first ballot, 
127 comments on the first recirculation and now over 224 comments on the second recirculation.

Major changes include:
    1.The moving the normative annexes into the main body of the text.
    2. The addition of a clause on reproducible results for computations using this standard
    3. The possible addition of extendable precision formats.
    4. The expansion on the treatment of transcendental and other functions

These changes have modified the draft to the point that it is not feasible to have a clear document showing changes from the original balloted draft to the current draft; any such document would show mostly change and hence would be less useful than
considering the new draft as a whole.

This has led to a requirement to re-ballot the draft. Because of the inability of the myBallot tool to cope with a re-ballot using the existing ballot panel, a new call for participation must be issued, and a new ballot group created.  We do hope that the 
current ballot group will sign on to the new ballot group.
I am starting this process at this time with a 15 day ballot invitation.

Because of the large changes with respect to language standards, participation from language experts is requested in the review of this new draft.

This invitation will go to the existing ballot group and to the 754 mailing list and the MSC mailing list.  This is also an opportunity for other interested parties to sign up for the ballot. Please forward the invitation to any interested parties.
 

This means that the ballot group has been disbanded.  If the ballot
starts again from the invitation stage, you must re-enroll in the ballot
group when the sponsor initiates that function.
 
Thank you.