On 9/19/2014 5:38 PM, Whistler, Ken wrote:
Michael,
"Declines to take action” is pretty thin.
A proposal which is declined by the UTC doesn't automatically
create an obligation to write an extended dissertation explaining
the rationale and putting that rationale on record. It might be
one thing if there were a lot of controversy involved, and one
group of participants asked for a rationale to be recorded,
despite not having a consensus to move on something -- but
this one wasn't even close. Nobody in the committee felt
encoding was justified in this case.
And not every mark on paper -- not even every mark *printed*
in typeset material on paper -- is automatically an obvious
candidate for encoding with a simple, plain text character
representation.
True, but a rationale (note that's not necessarily a dissertation) never
hurts.
"Declines to take action” may look like it is equivalent to "Nobody in the
committee felt
encoding was justified in this case", but it really isn't. The former allows
for all sorts of non-substantive reasons, but the latter is pretty clear: the
submitter failed to make the case.
What you are looking for is something equivalent to "summary dismissal" of a
legal action, but even there this usually gets some rationale or it has the benefit of a
standardized legal principle (don't know for a fact, but sounds plausible).
A./
--Ken
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