(j3.2006) Fwd: JTC 1 N 12032 - Communication from JTC 1 Chair and Secretariat Concerning WG Participation - What Having Experts, Not NB Delegations to the WG, Means to You

[John Reid]

Bill and Dan,

It is indeed worrisome. This is what I said in my report to you on the 
SC22 meeting in 2012 (see N1940)

"5. eCommittee (LiveLink)
ISO has mandated that all subcommittees and working groups host 
themselves on eCommittee (LiveLink). This is a significant problem for 
working groups because open access will be lost. SC22 is very concerned 
about this and passed two resolutions on it - one explaining the problem 
and objecting - the other asking why this is being done."

Since then Rex Jaeschke has been fighting on our behalf and has prepared 
a detailed document on the topic. It seems this has simply been ignored 
and we are being ordered to use Livelink. We all thought
that the idea has been made voluntary for WGs.

I asked the question "What would happen if all WGs simply refused to 
comply?" and seem to be getting unanimous support from the other 
conveners. I will keep you posted.

Cheers,

John.

Bill Long wrote:
> Hi Dan, John,
>
> I?m not sure what this means:
>
> "it was noted that WG experts now have access to WG level documents in
> Livelink. "
>
>
> partly because I have never heard of ?Livelink?.  I Googled it, and
> found a product that was supported on these platforms: SAP, Oracle, and
> Microsoft.  All three of which are completely irrelevant as far as I?m
> concerned, and entirely unacceptable in a standards participation
> context.  Hopefully INCITS concept of ?Livelink? has nothing to do with
> this product.  But, then, What is it?
>
> According to the memo, JTC 1 is now requiring that WG?s  use LiveLink,
> and INCITS is agreeing:
>
> The INCITS Secretariat will echo the ISO and JTC 1 leadership's
> notification that WGs establish/use document registers in Livelink to
> provide WG experts with access to WG documents.
>
>
> Seems very confusing and worrisome.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
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