From: owner-stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org on behalf of Ernst_Wahl
[wahl@aloft.agere.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:12 AM
To: stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: RE: stds-1450.4: stds-1450.4 Multi-site STIL


Tom, Gordon, and all,

I thought i'd restrain myself on the multi-site issue before applying my
steady drone: create the standard in phases. Tom has cracked the door
and i find myself staring into the deep morass. I'm backing Gordon on
this one, certainly for phase one.

To the extent that we feel compelled to carry on, i would focus
multi-site discussions on avoiding potential pitfalls in designing a
single-site-flow, i.e., the single-site-flow should not pose unnecessary
difficulties integrating multi-site schemes.  That may require a
compilation of known schemes that we can hold our single-site-flow up
to.  On the other hand, history is that ATE vendor multi-site flows were
constructed over existing single-site flows so, how circumspect do we
need to be ?  I'm not wise enough to say so i'll rely on the wisdom of
our group.

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