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Greetings: The PWG Standard for Imaging System Counters 1.0  from the WIMS WG of the Printer Working Group has completed its Last Call process. The Working Draft document is being submitted by the WIMS Working Group chair for a Formal Approval vote by the PWG membership. The Working Draft being submitted can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscount10-20050824.pdf The list of comments that were addressed as part of the Last Call are located at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/LastCallComments/CounterSpec_LC_Comment_Resolution_20050824.pdf The voting period will open on Wednesday August 31, 2005 and close at 10PM (Pacific Time) on Friday September 23, 2005. Valid votes are: Yes, No, No (with strong objection), Abstain. Any No vote requires that the voter state the reason for the No vote and a description of the changes required to turn the No vote to a Yes. Representatives from PWG member companies are strongly encouraged to submit a vote. To cast a vote, please send an email with the following subject line format: "Counter Spec. 1.0 Formal Vote-<company name>-<last name of voter>-<yes/no/abstain>" Example:  Counter Spec. 1.0 Formal Vote-Lexmark-thrasher-yes No votes MUST contain a reason in the body of the email. Please send your vote to the following email addresses: (Replacing "dot" with . and "at" with @): thrasher"at"lexmark"dot"com wamwagner"at"comcast"dot"net harryl"at"us"dot"ibm"dot"com Note: The PWG Definition of the Standards Development Process Version 2.0 located at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/process/pwg-process20.pdf has now been adopted and contains new voting requirements. Contact Info. for the Primary and Alternate representatives from PWG member companies will be provided to the working group chair in case "reminder" notices are necessary to meet the voting requirements listed in the process document. Jerry Thrasher PWG Secretary