Re: ATML Test Results Finalization

["David Barton" <d.barton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: ATML Test Results Finalization

John Sheppard writes:

My apologies. I misunderstood.

 

I guess I have some questions, since I do not know how standards work under a technical committee would function. The IEEE indemnifies standards developers when work is performed under a PAR through the Standards Association. Will DATC provide similar indemnification? Does DATC have similar requirements for openness and consensus? How would this work? What IEEE label would be applied to the work since there would be no draft standard anymore?

The work under the DATC would be on the same footing as gathering for a technical conference.  No special indemnification attaches.  The DATC would provide only an IEEE sponsorship for meetings and the like; other rules would be laid on only by the committee.  The only reason to use it would be to give a temporary "home" if we want to do some techincal work before kicking in the six month limit of a study group before submitting a PAR. 

We also have the issue of now having a PAR for an ATML base standard. As such, IEEE-SA now "owns" ATML and the copyright on all drafts.

No conflict there.  But I must admit I'm a little confused; if we are at the point of drafts, surely we can get a PAR done in six months?  I admit I've fallen down on reading the Emails a bit, but how much work do we have to do before we get a PAR done, which is really all we need to do in the six month period of the study group?  After that we have five years, after all.  I'm happy to offer the DATC for pre-PAR technical work, but if we are having to worry about indemnification and copyright for drafts, we should be far enough along to spend the first six months to get the PAR right and then go into the five year working group period.  It would seem that the pre-study group technical period is redundant.

 

In other words, the work under the DATC shouldn't *really* be thought of as standards work per se, since work before a PAR is created isn't really standards work.  The first Email left me with the impression that the transition had left some purely techical work to be done before the PAR was issued.  Was I wrong?

 

Dave Barton

EDAptive Computing