(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

Keith Bierman khbkhb
Tue Apr 22 15:34:32 EDT 2014


How sad. Oh well. Good luck fighting city hall.

I suppose if you treat tex/roff (whatever the tool of choice is these days)
as source code, they might not notice a sccs/vcs/github/whatever repository
as a document for quite some time ... but that might not be a reliable
solution.

Keith Bierman
khbkhb at gmail.com
kbiermank AIM
303 997 2749


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Dan Nagle <danlnagle at me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Van and I tried to investigate having IEEE/SA as the secretariate
> for J3.
>
> The contract between INCITS and ANSI gives INCITS right of first refusal,
> which they will exercise no matter how little they care for J3.
>
> On Apr 22, 2014, at 12:55 , Keith Bierman <khbkhb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps it is worth some rethinking where Fortran sits. The IEEE rules
> used to make a lot more sense. IEEE membership isn't cheap, but at least it
> has some potentially useful benefits outside of the Standards process
> itself.
> >
> > Obviously, the Corporate members would need to ensure that it satisfies
> their concerns about anti-trust exemptions, etc.  But given the large
> number of active IEEE Standards, it seems likely that it is simply a pro
> forma exercise.
> >
> > Keith Bierman
> > khbkhb at gmail.com
> > kbiermank AIM
> > 303 997 2749
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>
> --
>
> Cheers!
> Dan Nagle
>
>
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