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Greetings: The PWG Imaging Counter MIB 1.0  from the WIMS WG of the Printer Working Group has completed its Last Call process. The Working Draft document and Normative MIB definition are being submitted by the WIMS Working Group chair for a Formal Approval vote by the PWG membership. NOTE: This Formal Vote is to advance the document and MIB definition to a status of INFORMATIONAL not Candidate Standard.  This is due to the fact that, to date, there are NO prototypes of this MIB as required by the Printer Working Group Standards development process for advancement to Candidate Standard. The Working Draft being submitted can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscountmib10-20051129.pdf The Normative MIB definition can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscountmib10-20051129.mib The list of comments that were addressed as part of the Last Call for both the Counter Spec. and the Counter MIB are located at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/LastCallComments/CounterSpec_LC_Comment_Resolution_20050824.pdf Descriptions of the changes made to the document and mib since last call are detailed at: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/LastCallComments/wimscount_lc_change_log.doc The voting period will open on Friday December 2, 2005 and close at 10PM (Pacific Time) on Friday December 23, 2005. Valid votes are: Yes, No, No (with strong objection), Abstain. Any No vote requires that the voter state the reason for the No vote and a description of the changes required to turn the No vote to a Yes. Representatives from PWG member companies are strongly encouraged to submit a vote. To cast a vote, please send an email with the following subject line format: "Counter MIB Spec. 1.0 Formal Vote-<company name>-<last name of voter>-<yes/no/abstain>" Example:  Counter MIB Spec. 1.0 Formal Vote-Lexmark-thrasher-yes No votes MUST contain a reason in the body of the email. Please send your vote to the following email addresses: (Replacing "dot" with . and "at" with @): thrasher"at"lexmark"dot"com wamwagner"at"comcast"dot"net harryl"at"us"dot"ibm"dot"com Note: If you have not received an acknowledgement of your vote being cast within 48 hours of submitting your vote, please contact the PWG Chairman directly to ensure that your vote was received. Jerry Thrasher PWG Secretary