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I want to take this opportunity to encourage EACH company representative to cast your vote regarding the PWG Imaging System Counters v1.0. specification. Lots of good work has gone into this spec the result of which is a set of common semantics that will serve the industry, hopefully, cross standards organizations and vendor implementations for many years to come in many forms of fleet and device management applications. The Counters v1.0 spec constitutes a complete and thorough, contemporary, vendor neutral specification for accounting related to the various uses of print and imaging systems. YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT! Even if you may not have an immediate interest and choose to abstain, as a member of the PWG, your company's vote counts toward quorum so it is important that you take a moment and register your vote. Jerry has established a VERY simple and efficient way to make you vote clear using the Subject line of your e-mail (see below). Thanks to all those who HAVE voted already and I hope to hear from everyone prior to September 23! ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis IBM STSM Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group http://www.pwg.org IBM Printing Systems http://www.ibm.com/printers 303-924-5337 ---------------------------------------------- ----- Forwarded by Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM on 09/12/2005 11:24 PM ----- <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>thrasher@lexmark.com Sent by: owner-pwg-announce@pwg.org 08/29/2005 11:27 AM <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>pwg-announce@pwg.org <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>PWG-ANNOUNCE> Formal Vote announcement PWG Imaging System Counters V1.0</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> 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