[Asis-standards] Fwd: [NISO tc46ballots] Groups - Ballot opened: "Approval of Trent C. Palmer as alternate U.S. representative to ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency"

[Mark Needleman]

any objections to this?

mark

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[NISO tc46ballots] Groups - Ballot opened: "Approval of Trent
C. Palmer as alternate U.S. representative to ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency"
Date: 	Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:39:11 -0800 (PST)
From: 	<admin at list.niso.org>
To: 	mneedlem at ufl.edu



/"Approval of Trent C. Palmer as alternate U.S. representative to ISO
3166 Maintenance Agency" has opened./
*Ballot Title*: Approval of Trent C. Palmer as alternate U.S.
representative to ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
<http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/ballot.php?id=452>
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*Question*
Do you approve the appointment of Trent C. Palmer as alternate U.S.
representative to ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency

*Description*
This is a ballot for the approval of Trent C. Palmer as alternate U.S.
representative to ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.



The ISO 3166 three-part standard is the International Standard for
country codes and codes for their subdivisions. This standard does not
establish the names of countries, only the codes that represent them.
The country names in ISO 3166 come from United Nations sources. New
names and codes are added automatically when the United Nations
publishes new names in either the Terminology Bulletin Country Names or
in the Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use maintained by the
United Nations Statistics Divisions. Names for subdivisions are taken
from relevant official national information sources.



All three parts of ISO 3166 are maintained by a maintenance agency (ISO
3166/MA).The composition of the ISO 3166/MA reflects the two stakeholder
groups which were primarily involved in the development of ISO 3166 in
the early 1970s: national standards organizations, members of ISO, and
United Nations agencies. Among the ten experts with voting rights on the
ISO 3166/MA is the American National Standards Institute ANSI (United
States).



Since ISO 3166 is a TC46 standard, NISO as the U.S. TC46 TAG
Administrator appoints the U.S. representatives for ANSI to this
Maintenance Agency. Currently, Kate Dolan from the National Security
Agency is the primary representative.



We need to appoint an alternate representative and Trent Palmer from the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has bee nominated. His biography
is available from the link on the ballot webpage and in the announcement
e-mail.



Your voting options are:

Yes - approve Trent Palmer as the alternate U.S. representative to ISO
3166 Maintenance Agency (comments optional)

No - do not approve Trent Palmer as the alternate U.S. representative to
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (comments required)

Abstain from voting (comments optional)

*Closing Date*: Thursday, 28 February 2013 @ 11:59 pm EST

*Vote <http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/ballot.php?id=452>

   * Yes
   * No
   * Abstain

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*Group*: TC46 Ballot Advisory Group
*Date Opened*: Wednesday, 6 February 2013 @ 12:00 pm EST
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*Referenced Items*
	Bio Palmer.docx (12K) 	2013-01-23 	Download
<http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/download.php/10043>
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<http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/document.php?document_id=10043>