Final Agenda for the 990111 meeting
The minutes of the last meeting were approved (moved by Bob Davis, seconded by Dick Karpinski, no objections).
Long Range Planning--Edwin Vivian El-Kareh pointed out that there are a lot of interesting problems that call for standards. Some that have arisen recently related to instrumentation communication include how to encode many different kinds of parameters, like units, color, state diagrams, timing charts, etc.
Everyone rolls their own solution for these, a mess.
There have been some projects that address some of this kind of problem, such as ISO 639 for names of languages, ISO 10696 for Unicode.
Tom Pittman pointed out that there is a group that updates the list of all languages of the world once a year. This can be found via SIL.org (Summer Institute of Linguistics).
Another standard we did that is in this vein is 949, Media Independent Information Transfer.
We need to work out a vision for the next few years, and support it with MSC speakers and activities.
Vice Chair: The San Diego Standards meeting where Don Wright represented the MSC had low attendance.
Treasurer: Our treasurer did not have the exact figures at hand, but most of the money accumulated in the account is for International Standards Participation Fees collected, with a balance of about $1000 for the MSC's own use.
We decided to start a Study Group for the P2100 Physical Layer, chaired by Bob Davis. The question is whether to leave the physical layer out of P2100, and/or move it elsewhere. P2100 is planning to be media agnostic in the next round.
The Standards Activities Board and RevCom are moving more activity to the Web.
P1212r Working group is meeting January 25 at the Maui Marriott.
P1284r was approved, meeting March 3 in Miami.
P1285 has a new draft.
P1996 needs 2100 to finish!
P1537 should be approved as a PAR soon, agreement with the competing organizations seems to have been worked out. The group met again, and work is starting.
Our next meeting will be at a new location in the Bay Area, on April 12, 1999.
P1537 should be approved as a PAR soon, agreement with the competing organizations seems to have been worked out. The group met again, and work is starting.
Our next meeting will be at a new location in the Bay Area, on April 12, 1999.