From rinehuls@access.digex.net Thu Jan 29 00:19:26 1998 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlYBsVTekvXHY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA28632 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:19:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA16438 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:43:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:43:06 -0500 (EST) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2649 - SC22 Response Re JTC 1 Pilot Project Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII _______________________ beginning of title page ______________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2649 TITLE: SC22 Response to JTC 1 Request for Comments on JTC 1 Pilot Project DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-01-28 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Information from the SC Secretariat PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: The Secretariat appreciates the comments received from the WG Conveners which greatly aided in the development of this response. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (7030 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net __________ end of title page; beginning of document ___________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) January 28, 1998 Ms. Lisa Rajchel Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1 American National Standards Institute 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY l0036 SUBJECT: JTC 1 Pilot Project Dear Lisa: Reference is made to your email message of December 22, 1997 requesting the JTC 1 Subcommittees to provide responses to several questions concerning the JTC 1 Pilot Project that permits public availability of Working Drafts and Committee Drafts. JTC 1/SC22 has had considerable experience using this Pilot Project and strongly endorses its continuation. Following is the SC22 response to the specific questions posed: 1) Has your SC gained enough experience with this project to provide any information. Yes. More than 20 of our Working Drafts and/or Committee Drafts have been made publicly available during the period covered by the Pilot Project. In a number of cases, valuable comments have been received from public review. 2) What are the benefits or disadvantages of making WDs and CDs freely available. There have been no disadvantages. The benefits include: - The ability for review of the specificiation from a larger technical arena than that represented on the development group thereby identifying problems and differences of view at an early stage in the development process. - The ability to preserve rapport between the Working Group developing the standard and the larger worldwide community of users of the product(s) which will result from the standardization process. - The opportunity to collect National opinion from those National Bodies not active on the development group at a point where these opinions can be recognized and actions take to resolve them before they are raised in the final balloting process. - Wider visibility of the standard in progress among the community for which the standard is being developed. - Widely publicizing the standardization effort. 3) Should the pilot deadline be extended to allow for more time to gain information and experience? SC22 has had sufficient experience to recommend that JTC 1 adopt the permanent policy that these specificiations be made publicly available. In this regard, however, SC22 would point out that some documents processed within SC22 come from other standards bodies and may require special considerations regarding Intellectual Property Rights. The current pilot project doesn't take this into full consideration. JTC 1/SC22 appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Project. Sincerely WILLIAM C. RINEHULS Secretariat, JTC 1/SC22 _______________________ end of SC22 N2649 ________________________________