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RESULT: comp.lang.java.corba passes 650:38

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unmoderated group comp.lang.java.corba passes 650:38

There were 650 YES votes and 38 NO votes, for a total of 688 valid
votes. There were 2 abstains and 12 invalid ballots.

For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES
and NO) votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO
votes.

There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted.
If no serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the
moderator of news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly
thereafter.

Newsgroups line:
comp.lang.java.corba Topics relating to Java and CORBA.

The voting period closed at 23:59:59 UTC, 7 Oct 1997.

This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the
proposed group should be directed to the proponents.

Proponent: Jeff Nelson <co...@acm.org>
Proponent: Blake Scholl <bsc...@dialogosweb.com>
Votetaker: Rebecca McQuitty <m...@wco.com>

RATIONALE: comp.lang.java.corba

Since the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) standard
was established by the OMG (Object Management Group), it has attracted
much attention in the computer industry at large. More recently, Java
implementations of CORBA technology have become prominent. Sun has
integrated CORBA support into its Java Developer's Kit, and Netscape
has included Java-specific support for CORBA into its web browser.
There are now over 10 different Java-based ORBs, including both
commercial and freeware products, and CORBA support is being
integrated into Java development toolkits. Sun, Netscape, IBM, and
Oracle recently announced plans to integrate Java more closely with
CORBA through the JavaBeans architecture. Sun also announced that RMI
would be implemented with support for IIOP to make RMI interoperable
with CORBA-based distributed object tools.

All these public attention has sparked increased discussion of Java
and CORBA. General CORBA mailing lists such as CORBA-dev,
dist-object, IDL-users, and ILU frequently carry discussions of Java
issues. The OMG also maintains mailing lists about Java and CORBA,
but they are available only to OMG members. The Java Developer's
Journal has a monthly column called "CORBAcorner," and recently
several best-selling books have been published on this topic, such as
Orfali's "Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA."

In addition, there are many posts in comp.object.corba and in the
comp.lang.java hierarchy regarding Java-CORBA issues. Since there is
no CORBA specific Java newsgroup, many users are unsure about the best
place to post their messages about Java and CORBA; this frequently
results in problems with cross-posting. Comp.lang.java.corba would
create a clear forum for the discussion of topics related both to Java
and to CORBA.

CHARTER: comp.lang.java.corba

This unmoderated group is for aspects of Java technology that are
related to CORBA software development, products, and standards.
Possible discussion topics include:

* Questions about Java and CORBA
* Announcements of new products and services
* General Programming issues in Java and CORBA
* Design patterns related to Java/CORBA
* Discussion of OMG standards related to Java
* Recommendations and reviews of products, services, books and
tutorials
* Comparisons to other technologies

END CHARTER.

comp.lang.java.corba Final Vote Ack

Voted Yes
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jit...@hotmail.com Jitendra Banthia.
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lde...@spnc-us.com Luc DELFAU
le...@us.ibm.com Leo Uzcategui
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lfsa...@microsoft.com Luiz Fernando Santos
lie...@ilog.com Lieber Matthieu
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list-...@dream.hb.north.de Martin Schr"oder
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mah...@paragon-software.com B.G. Mahesh
ma...@india.aspectdv.com K.R.Manjunath [Your Vote] =20
mans...@ssax.com Tung Mansfield
mar...@shellus.com Marcelo Gallardo
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mba...@nortel.ca Mark Baker
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mcund...@mmm.com Maros Cunderlik
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mlie...@cisco.com Mindy Lieberman
mmar...@cscs.ch Marcello Marchesoli
moh...@lucent.com Piroz Mohseni
morris...@datacraft.com.au Morris Rashad
mpra...@progress.com Mayank Prakash
mram...@redwood.fr Rambert Marc
mso...@mistik.express.net Mustafa Soysal MS57
muma...@qualcomm.com Senthilkumar Sundaram
mver...@gunpowder.mit.edu Matthew D. Verminski
mwa...@iriscorp.com Matthew H. Wagner
mwwa...@uiuc.edu Michael W. Walker
my...@andrew.cmu.edu Min-Yu Yang
mz...@cast.msstate.edu Ming Zhou
mzim...@worldchat.com Milan Zimmermann
N.E.Noo...@research.kpn.com N.E. Noorlander
na...@firefly.net Nancy Benovich Gilby
Naveen...@Corp.Sun.COM Naveen Kumar
ned...@gate.net Charles E. Bush
ne...@shore.net Neil Berkman
n...@it.uq.edu.au Nic Williams
ni...@cimio.co.uk Nick Waterman - Long Ballot Hater
ni...@dstc.edu.au Nigel Ward
nira...@nms.fnc.fujitsu.com Niranjan Tripathy
nka...@mda.ca Nina Katic
Noell...@irisa.fr Noklle Adam
Norbert.W...@do.isst.fhg.de Norbert Weissenberg
npe...@mcc.com Nancy Perry
NR...@nexus-informatics.de Norbert Rapp
nsc...@tell.ascom.ch Benjamin Schlup
nsm...@iona.com Niall Smart
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Olivier....@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr Olivier Potonniee
op...@dimensional.com Roger M. Opperman
orio...@iona.com David O'Riordan
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pat...@visigenic.com patrick nouhra
Paul....@bglobal.com Paul Ananth
paul....@alcatel.com.au Paul Nader
pau...@w3com.com Paul Ho
Paul_K...@chordiant.com Paul Kendall
pa...@inorth.on.ca Trevor Tymchuk
permjee...@x400.icl.co.uk Permjeet Pandha
pe...@praxis.co.uk Peter Ferne
"Peter Forsberg"@raleigh.ibm.com Peter Forsberg
Peter....@Eng.Sun.COM Peter B. Kessler
pe...@santix.de Peter Chatchaturian
pet...@frac.iona.com.au Peter Krantz
pete...@ti.com Bob Peterson
petri.r...@tele.fi Petri Riipinen
pfer...@gte.net Pete Ferzoco
phe...@ssax.com Peter Herzum
ph...@pjbsware.demon.co.uk Philip Baker
philip...@ficsgrp.com Philippe Hubo
pkal...@esp.bellcore.com Kalpesh K Patel
plope...@epm.br Paulo Roberto de Lima Lopes
pol...@crpcu.lu Michel Poleur
po...@qds.com Alan L. Pope
po...@dstc.qut.edu.au Dean Povey
p...@quebec.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com Charles Pow
p...@vossnet.co.uk Philip Preston
pranab....@boeing.com B>Pranab K. Baruah</B>
pre...@ifi.unibas.ch Gerald Pretot
pwa...@trcinc.com Peter Walker
qu...@baccus.franken.de Andreas Dietrich
qu...@us.ibm.com rick mandel
qz...@nbtel.nb.ca Qin Zhao
r.mee...@pecoma.nl Rob Meerwijk
radek...@ac.com radek.vacha
raj...@systemsmiths.com.au Rajeev Arora
Rajes...@nike.com Rajesh Zade
ra...@ark.franken.de
r...@appdesigngroup.com Rob Quinn
ratnak...@autodesk.com Ratnakar Dev
ra...@mail.c-bridge.com Ravi Seelamsetty
r...@arrakis.com.au Roland Turner
rd...@harlequin.co.uk Roger Day
rdh...@fedex.com Richard Hill
rei...@gsf.de Joerg Reiner
Rei...@neta.com Perry Reinert
remigio...@sargroup.com Remigio Di Muzio
res...@interlog.com Ron Resnick
rey...@tricom.com.ph Rey Antonio R. Rex
r...@shellus.com Richard G. Hash
Richard_...@usairways.com Richard E. Fletcher
r...@apg.philips.com Richard B Sagar
r...@technologist.com Randy Clarkson
rlc...@research.baan.nl Rine le Comte
rlo...@intaccess.com Richard Lowisz
Robert...@cern.ch Robert Jones
ro...@ics.com ROHAN
Rohit...@Eng.Sun.COM Rohit Garg
ronv...@xs4all.nl Ron van Wier
ro...@capecod.net Dolores Scaldini Klimm
rsc...@teknowledge.com Randall Schulz
rshe...@openeng.com Robert E. Shelton
RTr...@PlanetDirect.com Treacy, Robert
ruben_...@ibm.net Ruben Bakker
ruf...@e-math.ams.org J Rufinus
russ...@acm.org Russell Gold
rwor...@rwa-net.co.uk Rob Wortham
s027...@moncol.monmouth.edu Venkat Tadi
s030...@moncol.monmouth.edu Kavitha Challapalli
sam....@sciatl.ca Sam Cirka
Sandor...@let.ruu.nl Sandor Spruit
Sandr...@firefly.net Sandra Sheu
Sandy.G...@gsfc.nasa.gov Sandy Grosvenor
san...@nio.dec.com Stefano M. Santoro
sas...@powerup.com.au Scott Andrew Smith
sas...@nms.fnc.fujitsu.com Sastry Kolachana
sat...@adithya.ncb.ernet.in V Satish Kumar
sat...@amteva.com Satish Joshi
s...@metis.no Steinar Bang
sba...@fsg.com Steven Barber
sch...@bbn.com Richard Schantz
sel...@fit.qut.edu.au Selwyn Russell
semir...@mci.com Semir Patel
sha...@tecnomatix.com Ofer Shaked
sha...@wellsfargo.com SRIRAM SHANKARANARAYANA
sh...@sycomore.fr Mike Sharp
SHudd...@tribune.com Scott A. Huddleston
shu...@riverace.com Steve Huston
Sibtho...@JDCORP.deere.com Bryan Sibthorp
sie...@omg.org Jon M. Siegel
Siow...@earthling.com Tan Siow Boon
sirv...@sema4usa.com John Sirvydas
s...@dstc.edu.au Simon McBride
sk...@sybase.com Scott Kay
sku...@ford.com Shailesh Kumar
sku...@PaineWebber.COM SAURABH KUMAR
sk...@sclpinet.clp.com.hk Stephen Kwok
sli...@ebi.ac.uk Timothy Slidel
smc...@mail04.mitre.org Steven McGee
sm...@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Oliver Kasten
Smith...@JDCORP.deere.com David Smith
so...@omg.org Richard Soley
som...@syl.nj.nec.com Somesh Rao
so...@home.com Steven J. Silverman
s...@rainbow.yonsei.ac.kr MyoungSoo Kang
S...@tntv7.ntrs.com Steve Bonine
spir...@ebi.ac.uk Anastassia Spiridou
ssan...@alpha.telecom-co.net Sandra Patricia Sanchez M.
ss...@iona.com Shrihas Shah
SSID...@us.oracle.com SSIDDIQU.US.ORACLE.COM
ssw...@netexplorer.com Stephen Swaney
sta...@stamper.com Chris Stamper
sta...@vnet.IBM.COM
Sten.Ro...@uab.ericsson.se Sten Rosendahl
ste...@cyberatl.net Steve Nichols
ste...@titude.Eng.Sun.COM Steven Butler
Steve...@chordiant.com Steven M. Sims
ste...@sequent.com Steve Peterson
Steve_Ro...@email.sps.mot.com Steve Roth
Steve...@pcmailgw.ml.com Steven C. Wolfe
stl...@consys.com David St. Louis
stoe...@faps.uni-erlangen.de Thomas Stoeckel
ston...@mc.duke.edu Alan Stone
stu.b...@mcc.com Stu Barrett
stuart.a...@usa.net Stuart Altenhaus
stu...@bmsi.com Stuart D. Gathman
suh...@ibm.net SUHAIL M. AHMED
suk...@paul.rutgers.edu Sukmoon Chang
T.Kr...@pop-koeln.bull.de Thomas Kriener
tan...@magnet.com Tanya Zimmerli
taoj...@acm.org Frank Svoboda
tay...@dstc.edu.au Richard J Taylor
tec...@ilcnet.com Matt Perry
Ted_Va...@Altris.Com Ted S. Valencia
terd...@dialogosweb.com Tom Erdevig
thomas.ch...@ibm.net Thomas Christensen
tich...@ap.org Charles Tichenor
ti...@appliednet.co.uk Tim Soakell
tli...@perspex.com Tripp Lilley
tlo...@adnc.com Timothy A. Lowery
tna...@afmedia.com Tarek S. Nassar
TOBr...@harris.com Terence W. O'Brien
tom.p...@ibm.net Thomas R. Perkins
tomas.a...@era.ericsson.se Tomas Andersson
To...@intelisys.net Thomas Crawley
to...@sparks.tomg.com Tom Gardner
TomGa...@mbconsulting.com Tom Garrity
to...@online.no Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
t...@Trema.COM Teemu Torma
to...@taskon.no Thor Henning Hetland
tspe...@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Thomas Peuker
TWA...@dialogosweb.com Thomas R Wagner
tyon...@elementalsoftware.com Thomas W. Yonkman
u...@decrc.abb.de Axel Uhl
ul...@microguild.com Ulf Weltman
ul...@enea.se Ulf Santesson
um...@entelchile.net Yves Bossel
ung...@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com Liz Ungar
Vansi_...@wb.xerox.com Van-Si Nguyen
vba...@telecom.ntua.gr Vangelis Baltatzis
ven...@fsc.fujitsu.com Venkat Kethanaboyina
ve...@objs.com Dr. Venu Vasudevan
vij...@visigenic.com Vijaykumar Natarajan
v...@oes.kareltek.fi Vesa-Matti Puro
vos...@egd.igd.fhg.de Joerg Voskamp
vpd...@hiwaay.net Vic Dura
vur...@rempt.xs4all.nl Boudewijn Rempt
W.Lu...@infosys.tuwien.ac.at Wolfgang Lugmayr
walter....@platinum.com Walter Guerrero
wate...@epims1.gsfc.nasa.gov Stephen Chaney Waterbury
Wayne....@nike.com Wayne Little
wedw...@visigenic.com William Edwards
wei...@caip.rutgers.edu Weicong Wang
weiq...@a.crl.com Weiqi Gao
we...@inflab.uni-linz.ac.at Werner Punz
witt...@iml.fhg.de Markus Witthaut
wohl...@mitre.org Steven Wohlever
Wolfgang.K...@abas.de Wolfgang Kretzschmar
wong...@rocketmail.com Frank Kwan Yin Wong
Woody....@PSS.Boeing.com Woody Pidcock
wo...@i-kinetics.com Devashish Worah
xant...@well.com Kent Paul Dolan
yil...@caip.rutgers.edu Yilu He
you...@info.bt.co.uk Pete Young
ze...@enteract.com Shuxiang Zeng
Zhiga...@loria.fr Zhigang Li
z...@odi.com Juergen Zimmermann
ziso...@fokus.gmd.de Andreas Zisowsky
zn...@teleport.com M. Edward Borasky
Zoely....@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr Zoely Canela
Z...@us.oracle.com zhou ye

Voted No
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bas...@cict.fr Remi Bastide
bed...@geocities.com Bobby Tendinitis
bo...@datasync.com Martin H. Booda
cala...@chass.utoronto.ca T.Calabrese
chr...@nortel.ca Chris Ebenezer
chuckh...@mindspring.com Chuck Hoffmann
cip...@mindspring.com David A. Howard
c...@get.be Chris Verret
Dave...@unisys.com David E. Keen
d...@cra.com Dmitry Grenader
er...@eisenhower.org Eric Eisenhower
gar...@netcomuk.co.uk Gareth Young
gpr9...@uconnvm.uconn.edu G.P. Ryan
hf...@lerami.lerctr.org Hank Fung
h...@demo.ru Alexander Horoshilov
hum...@eurecom.fr Jakob Hummes
J.J.C...@nortel.co.uk Jonathan Currey
j...@zukowski.net John Zukowski
jeffer...@bigfoot.com Jeffery D. Hunt
je...@ntrs.com Jose Everardo Herrera
jr...@xanadu.eng.utoledo.edu John Reed
mar...@pacbell.net Aaron Marquez
Mats.P...@mailbox.swipnet.se Mats Palmgren
ma...@symsoft.se Mats Palmgren
mcha...@iona.com Martin Chapman
mi...@dstc.edu.au Michi Henning
mmc...@irus.rri.uwo.ca Matthew McBain
ol...@viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar
pa...@lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti
pjen...@onramp.net Paul Jenkins
r...@rahul.net Red
ri...@bcm.tmc.edu Richard Miller
Robert....@nike.com Robert Huffman
stai...@bga.com Dwight Brown
stei...@primenet.com Jason Steiner
ste...@dimensional.com Steve Odendahl
td...@sargent.syr.edu Thorsten Daum
to...@null.net Tony Basoglu

Abstained
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gjoh...@season.com Gary Johnson
guym...@deltanet.com Guy Macon


Votes in error
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abb...@dakota.net Dan Abbott
! No ballot
abou...@teknowledge.com Kader Bouhdili
! No ballot
ad...@datorn.com Kenneth Persson
! Invalid address
d...@pobox.oleane.com Vincent Nonnenmacher
! No vote statement in message
ewal...@cme.nist.gov Evan Wallace
! No ballot
gp...@dbintellect.com Greg Pasquariello
! No vote statement in message
jgr...@knight-hub.com Jason C. Grant
! No vote statement in message
m...@epoch.ncsc.mil Michelle L. Patterson
! No ballot
ozsari...@ct.tudelft.nl S.S. OZSARIYILDIZ
! No ballot
s015...@moncol.monmouth.edu V.R.Reddy Sabbella
! Invalid ballot
tl...@fuse.net Todd Levy
! No vote statement in message
u...@best.com Charles Liu
! No ballot

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Rebecca Graham McQuitty

Rebecca McQuitty

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Dec 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/2/97
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During the last few days of the vote I received both a copy of an
improper ballot distribution and a slew of votes mangled in the same way
(a classic sign of voting fraud). It turns out, however, that most of
those people were responding to a campaign notice that included pointers
to the CFV on multiple web news archives. Such a notice is proper, if
frowned on, and the votes from the archives are valid. The archives do
process Usenet posts a bit, and this must be what caused the mangled
ballots.

Any remaining votes from improper campaigning are insignificant in the
face of the obvious interest in this group.

I'm very sorry this vote took so long. My real-life work schedule went
out of control at about the time the vote ended, and the sheer volume of
questionable votes prevented me from investigating the apparent
problem. I'd like to thank all the people who responded so quickly when
I finally did write -- you were all very helpful.

--
Rebecca Graham McQuitty

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