Since the question came up on the webex today: section 2.2.2 of the rules document states that MPI Companion docs require the same voting as general MPI text proposals: --- 2.2.2 General Text Proposals General text proposals for the MPI Standard Document (including MPI Companion Documents, such as the MPIR specification document) are usually “not trivial” changes, and typically add new semantics, change or clarify existing semantics, or remove previously-defined semantics. General text proposals use the following process to be accepted into an MPI Standard Document: ...description of the reading+2 ballots procedure... --- -- Jeff Squyres [email protected] For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/