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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear members of WG 6<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am pleased to attach what I believe to be the draft of Amendment 1 of ISO/IEC 26300:2006 that is ready for its first ballot.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have checked with the SC 34 Secretariat, and Kimura-san informs me that, because the Amendment project was initiated at the March 2010 Plenary in Stockholm, it falls follows the old JTC 1 procedural rules so far as balloting is concerned. Consequently this draft will be issued for a FOUR-month FPDAM ballot (not five, as I had thought).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You will notice that the draft is considerably longer than the one previously circulated. This is entirely due to the addition at the end of an almost-complete table of the line-number changes in schema fragments that result from the application of amendments throughout the standard. The table lacks only page number references, as a guide to implementers, and I have taken the view that these are not needed by National Bodies to review the text in technical terms. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Francis Cave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Convenor<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>