Re: What happened to...?

On 09/20/2014 03:32 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> I agree that we should minute at least some reason for declining. It
> need only be a sentence or two.

I would hope that the requesters get a detailed explanation of the
rejection. It would be very wrong not to do so. If so, then the
minutes could just copy and paste, deleting unnecessary detail.
>
> (BTW I wasn't at that discussion.)
>
> {phone}
>
> On Sep 20, 2014 3:17 AM, "Asmus Freytag" <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com
> <mailto:asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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