T13 voted down the Generic Functionality proposal on 2 April 2001 — an 8-to-7 simple majority that failed the two-thirds ANSI/NCITS supermajority required for a late-stage proposal

T13 voted on Curtis Stevens's "Generic Functionality" proposal (claim-ibm-withdrew-2001-cprm-ata-proposal-resubmitted-as-generic-functionality) on 2 April 2001. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's own press release — issued 4 April 2001 and titled "T13 Rejects Hard Drive Copy Prevention" — frames the outcome plainly: the proposal was voted down. That headline outcome is corroborated by The Register's contemporaneous "Son of CPRM fails ATA committee vote" (2 April 2001) and by a Slashdot summary of the same vote (Tier 4, used only as a cross-check, not itself citable).

The specific tally reported was 8 organizations in favor (IBM, Toshiba, Hitachi, Iomega, Microsoft, Phoenix, Absolute Software, Circuit Assembly) against 7 opposed (Apple, Adaptec, ST Micro, Western Digital, Maxtor, LSI Logic, Hale Landis) — a simple majority that nonetheless failed to clear the roughly two-thirds threshold NCITS procedure required for late-stage proposals, the same threshold mechanic that had already killed an earlier CPRM-related sub-vote reported at 4:2:11 in December 2000. Because both the tally and the procedural-threshold mechanism were read only through a fetch-and-summarize tool rather than a direct read of a primary record — and a 2026-07-31 audit re-fetch found the EFF release itself carries no tally, company list, or threshold language at all, so those specifics rest entirely on The Register's report, not on EFF — the quantitative specifics stay [unverified-quant — needs primary], routed to question-verify-cprm-t13-rejection-4c-entity-eff — even though the coarser "rejected, 2 April 2001" fact clears a lower bar via EFF's own Tier-2 framing.