From: bwr607@hotmail.com 
  
 Joe Bernstein  wrote in 
 news:ci2sb8$emm$1@reader1.panix.com: 
  
 > But while reading it, I was perplexed by the extremely similar wording 
 > of the four proposed charters; this suggested to me that three of the 
 > proposals had no life of their own, and were a tactical move by the 
 > slr-systems proponents to answer opposition. 
  
 Each of the proposals started out looking very different from each other. 
 It was ulimately agreed that the common areas of the charters should be 
 uniform. 
  
 The three other groups were not originally proposed by the dSLR proposal 
 founders, Thad and Alan. The ZLR proposal was born as a result of the RFD 
 process..I know because it was my idea, and David (who was originally 
 against the proposal) joined me to write up the ZLR proposal. We submitted 
 it ourselves to NAN, as a separate proposal. Check the older RFD threads if 
 you are interested. The p&s group was originally a proposal for ultra- 
 compact digicams. The rangefinder grouo was born grom objections from a 
 Leica owner and many other parties in this discussion to keeping digital 
 rangefinders in the same group as the dSLR systems. The NAN team asked Thad 
 and the rest of us to merge all the proposals into a single RFD..and we did 
 it. 
  
 -- 
 Bill 
  
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