ad before developing a greater consensus?  I strongly
think not.

Second, you responded to Graham Horn that it was wrong for a single
organization, no matter how large and influential, to claim multiple
votes. Yet of the 11 Yes votes I count at least three from Teknowledge
just the number needed to assure a majority.  Wasn't there some celebrated
case in IEEE involving bloc voting by a single company (as opposed to
individualized participation in the case of the Boeing participants)? 
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