standards development process

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <12960 at brl-adm.ARPA> dsill at NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) writes:
>Are comments the only form of input a non-ANSI member has to an ANSI
>committee/standard?  The comments are a good idea, but X3J11 is not
>bound use them.  It seems like a public ballot would be reasonable.
>Isn't that what IEEE does?

Restricting balloting to actively participating members is a good idea
for the same reasons as those that led our (USA) founding fathers to
set up a representative republic instead of a democracy.  (Let's not
discuss why the original plan was subverted in this newsgroup, please!)