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> To be approved a spec
> must pass two separate and independent votes: one by those who worked
> on the spec, and one by interested parties who did not participate in
> the development of the spec, and made no investment to be wasted if
> the specification fails to pass the vote. Sadly, I know of no
> standards body that operates in such a bicameral fashion.

Except for the fact that some committee members are also in the second 
voting pool, many standards work this way:  W3C, OASIS, ITU (less sure 
of that).

	/r$

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Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
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