[Asis-standards] Comments on ISO ISSN revision

[Mark Needleman]

Folks

I just submitted the following comments on the ISO ISSN revision

ISO 3297-2007-ISSN Revision

ASIST agrees with other commenters that this both a confusing vote and not a minor revision to the standard.  

It's unclear what providing no comments implies. If it implies agreement with the removal of the text that says assignment of ISSNs is free that is a significant change to the standard even if there is no plan to charge for assignments at this time. It leaves open the possibility of charging in the future and thus we feel that requires a substantive vote for approval or not and not merely an opportunity to provide comments especially since it's unclear exactly what effect any comments would have on the future of the ISSN standard

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No vote was requested so we only provided comments

(Comments provided by Timothy Dickey, Marjorie Hlava and Mark Needleman)
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   Folks

   I just submitted the following comments on the ISO ISSN revision

ISO 3297-2007-ISSN Revision

   ASIST agrees with other commenters that this both a confusing vote and not a
   minor revision to the standard.
   It's unclear what providing no comments implies. If it implies agreement
   with the removal of the text that says assignment of ISSNs is free that is a
   significant change to the standard even if there is no plan to charge for
   assignments at this time. It leaves open the possibility of charging in the
   future and thus we feel that requires a substantive vote for approval or not
   and not merely an opportunity to provide comments especially since it's
   unclear exactly what effect any comments would have on the future of the
   ISSN standard
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   No vote was requested so we only provided comments

   (Comments provided by Timothy Dickey, Marjorie Hlava and Mark Needleman)