From: gibian@talent.ljo.dec.com (Marc S. Gibian)
Subject: 2nd CFV: comp.software.licensing
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Software Licensing Technology Group
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:24:55 GMT

************* 2nd Call For Votes on comp.software.licensing ***************

OFFICIAL VOTING DAYS
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         Start Date: July  16, 1992
           End Date: August 6, 1992

  Votes received on or in-between these dates will be counted.  The
time/date stamp contained in the "From:" line of YOUR email will be
used to determine your offical time of voting.  MY local time or the
date/time set on my local hub when your email is received will not
be used.  Voting starts at 12:00:01am on the "Start Date", and ends at
11:59:59pm of the "End Date" (00:00:01 and 23:59:59 for those using
24 hour notation).

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Voting started on July 16, so it's time to get those votes in!!!
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The discussion that took place contained no major objections and no
clear desire to make any changes to the original RFD.  I have appended
the RFD, minus disucssion instructions, to this CFV and will be happy
to forward all postings that where made as part of the discussion upon
email request (gibian@talent.ljo.dec.com).

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How to cast your vote:
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1) Send your vote via email only, using the proper SUBJECT LINE to the 
following address:

        gibian@talent.ljo.dec.com

2) Yes votes should use the following subject header, or something similiar:

Subject: Yes, create new comp.software.licensing newsgroup

3) No votes should use the subject header, or something similiar:

Subject: No, do not create comp.software.licensing newsgroup

4) NOTE: No content to the email message is necessary and will be
ignored if it exists.  This is because the vote is either for
complete acceptance or complete rejection of the creation of the new
newsgroup called "comp.software.licensing"

5) All votes will be acknowledge via email.  

(please vote as soon as you are ready, all votes received between 
July 25 and August 2 will be acknowledged as soon as possible after 
August 3... I will be around, but not able to check my email during 
that interval)

6) The results will be posted a few days after then close of the voting
period, to let email find its way through the network.

7) As per the rules, if there are more than 100 yes votes than no votes
by that date AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes
received are yes votes, the newsgroup will be created.

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RFD: comp.software.licensing

Request for discussion regarding the creation of:  comp.software.licensing
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  NOTE: Please everyone, do *not* respond by email to me or any
  others unless specifically requested to do so, i.e. offline
  discussions or voting when the time comes.  Note also that I
  check the newsgroup "news.groups" daily for new discussion items
  and am keeping a discussion file that gets all discussion items
  appended to it.  A summary will be posted in the upcoming "Call
  for Votes (CFV)".  All current discussion posts pertaining to
  this issue may be found in "news.groups".

Proposed Charter
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This newsgroup will be a forum for discussing software
licensing technology.  It is proposed as an UNMODERATED group to
encourage the free flow of ideas and experiences with this relatively
new and very important technology.  Areas of discussion should
include:

1. Standards in the area, initially including but by no means limited
to the LS API (License Service) that was announced a few weeks ago and
endorsed by many significant players in the software product arena.

2. Experience as developers including software licensing in products,
using commercial software licensing products, or home grown solutions.

3. Experience distributing software licensed with software licensing
technology, as well as the distribution of licenses.

4. Experience as administrators of systems running software licensed
with software licensing technology.

5. Experience as users of software licensed with software licensing
technology.

Given the breadth of areas impacted by this technology, there is no
existing newsgroup which includes the audiences interested in this
technology, and thus this proposal for creating the comp.software.licensing
group.
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.antiques,rec.food.cooking,rec.crafts.brewing,misc.rural,rec.food.veg,rec.food.drink,rec.gardens,rec.org.sca