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JSR #179
Location API for J2ME^TM
Community Draft Ballot
Ballot duration: 2002-11-12 to: 2002-11-18

These are the final results of the Community Draft Ballot for JSR #179. The Executive Committee for ME has approved this ballot.

Votes

BEA Systems

Cisco Systems

Ericsson Inc.

IBM

Insignia Solutions

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Motorola

Nokia Corporation

PalmSource, Inc.

Philips Electronics UK Ltd

Research In Motion, LTD (RIM)

Siemens AG

Sony International (Europe) GmbH

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Texas Instruments Inc.

Zucotto Wireless

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Yes
No
Abstain
Not voted

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On 2002-11-13 Sun Microsystems, Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-14 Nokia Corporation voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-14 Research In Motion, LTD (RIM) voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-14 Zucotto Wireless voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-15 Insignia Solutions voted Yes with the following comment:
It seems a shame that CLDC 1.1 is a requirement, forcing adoption of this JSR out into the future, for the sake of a handful of floating point values. How much consideration was given to representing these values in a different way, in order to make implementation on CLDC 1.0 a possibility?
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On 2002-11-17 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-18 Philips Electronics UK Ltd voted No with the following comment:
Philips (a member of this EG) is reluctantly voting against this JSR at this time because a feature which we believe is essential is not included due to the aggressive schedule of the spec lead. It has been agreed in the EG to consider it after community review but the EC has no opportunity to vote again on this JSR until very late in the process when including this feature could be presented as being too late. 

The feature concerned is the ability for an application to be notified when the user / a mobile device enters a defined area. A proposal for this feature is available within the EG.

This has been communicated to the spec lead.
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On 2002-11-18 Ericsson Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-18 IBM voted Yes with the following comment:
IBM's vote is based on the technical merits of this JSR and is not a vote on the licensing terms.  IBM supports licensing models that create an open and level playing field by allowing third parties to create independent implementations of Java Specifications and that do not allow individuals or companies to exercise unnecessary control for proprietary advantage.  We support open source as a licensing model for contributions in the JCP, and would hope others will support this direction.   This comment is not necessarily directed at the current business or license terms for this JSR, however, it is a statement of IBM's preferred licensing model.

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On 2002-11-18 Texas Instruments Inc. voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-18 Motorola voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-18 Sony International (Europe) GmbH voted Yes with no comment.
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On 2002-11-18 Siemens AG voted Yes with no comment.
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