P4302

WG21 sometimes records polls on paper revisions that did not appear in a pre-meeting mailing. When an in-meeting revision changes the design, recording the poll can shift the burden of achieving consensus from the author to the stakeholders before national body experts have seen the change. This paper proposes that, before such a poll is recorded, the chair ask whether anyone objects and that one objection bars the tally from being recorded in the minutes while allowing discussion, an informal poll, and a qualitative record. A narrow final-meeting exception permits wording corrections and feature removal when waiting would cost a release.