The person can then distribute drafts for comment and revision.
The European Commission is unlikely to block the G.E. deal officially until July, but it has already distributed a draft decision outlining its proposed rejection.
Last week, the Palestinians distributed a draft resolution to the 193 member states in the first practical step of the campaign for international recognition of a future state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
After several months of trying to set up a business plan for the new company with no input from his boss, he said, he distributed a draft plan to C.S.I.R.'s scientists asking for feedback, and criticizing the agency's management.
The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said after a meeting in Riyadh of the loosely allied, six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council that the group had distributed a draft plan for the union to its members' foreign ministers to review so they could resolve any issues.
Last year, China distributed a draft policy to foreign executives that called for barring the export of some of the rare earth elements that are in the shortest supply, and happen to be mined mainly in southeastern China using some of the most environmentally damaging techniques.
On the last night before the end of the conference, organizers distributed a draft Wuzhen Declaration that was to be released at the closing ceremony several hours later the next morning, giving attendees few hours to object to the content or submit revisions.
Specialized software enables teachers to distribute student drafts anonymously without spending hours at a copying machine.
Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said last week that he would not stand in the way of an independent intelligence inquiry as long as it did not interfere with the months-long investigation by his panel, which plans to distribute a draft report to members of Congress on Thursday.
Distribute the draft to all partners.
