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Hi Roy<br>
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As you are fully aware this issue has not been resolved by IHO and
whichever option is voted in will not be accepted by everyone. Also
note that the <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> US
Board on Geographic Names has decided (August 2011) to use "Sea
of Japan" instead of East Sea and Sea of Japan </span></font>and
has recommended this to IHO (see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2011/08/169818.htm">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2011/08/169818.htm</a>).
I think this is also the UK position. The IHO Conference in 2012
will again discuss the issue and a resolution is expected.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Whatever the outcome of our
vote there needs to be a statement attached to C19 to say something
along the lines of:<br>
<br>
"The names in this list represent a consensus of the SeaVox group
and do not represent an official opinion of the International
Hydrographic Organization or any other organization"<br>
<br>
Be prepared to change the name if there is an outcome at XVIII IH
Conference.<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></font>If
voting is compulsory (as we Aussies think it should be) then my vote
is 3, 1, 2, 4.<br>
<br>
cheers, Greg<br>
<br>
On 26/08/2011 17:44, Lowry, Roy K. wrote:
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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>BODC has received a communication from Korea concerning the
labelling of the body of water between Japan and Korea on a
map on our web site that is based on the C19 vocabulary. </div>
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<div>Some of you will know the history behind this, but for
those who don’t I will give a brief summary. IHO published
its Sea Areas specification with the body of water labelled
‘Sea of Japan’ in 1953. For the proposed next version of the
Sea Areas Korea proposed the name ‘East Sea’. Japan objected
and because IHO governance is based on veto the publication
was blocked. This has continued ever since with various
proposals from either side being vetoed by the other, which is
why with the exception of one minor change (addition of the
Celtic Sea) the IHO Sea Areas have not been updated since
1953.</div>
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<div>C19 was placed under SeaVoX governance primarily to
sidestep this issue thereby removing a number of blockers to
metadata development caused by the inflexibility of the I953
list. As no alternative label has come either officially or
unofficially from IHO, we adopted the 1953 name. We are now a
large (100 members) international body and I therefore feel
that we have the opportunity as a governance to grasp the
issue of the naming of the disputed water body. I therefore
propose that we ‘vote’ with interested SeaVoX members ranking
the following alternatives in order of preference. If you
have colleagues in your organisation who are also members of
the SeaVoX list please discuss the issue with them and send
one ‘vote’.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The order given below indicates the preference of BODC
following discussions at the senior management level.</div>
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<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left:
36pt; ">
<li>Sea of Japan – East Sea</li>
<li>East Sea – Sea of Japan</li>
<li>Sea of Japan</li>
<li>East Sea</li>
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<div>I will add up the total points for each choice (4 for first
place though 1 for fourth) and the choice with the highest
number of points will be used in C19. The poll will close on
Friday September 16<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font>.</div>
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<div>Regards, Roy.</div>
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