Re: Procedural correction Re: Motion P1788/M0001.01_StandardizedNotation: Voting period officially begins
I vote "Yes."
One of the merits of public voting is that I get to vote, too. If anyone suspects fraud, ANYONE can count the votes for themselves.
Dr. George F. Corliss
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Marquette University
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On 1/24/09 8:12 PM, "R. Baker Kearfott" <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IEEE P1788 working group members:
In my announcement of yesterday (appended here), I said
to cast your votes by sending them to george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
However, we had agreed that, although George will tabulate
the votes, voting on position papers may be public. That
is, you may cast your formal vote by sending it to
stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I apologize for the mixup.
Sincerely,
Ralph Baker Kearfott
(acting chair, P-1788)
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IEEE P1788 working group members:
I hereby officially open the voting period on our first motion.
The voting period will continue for three weeks, until
2009/02/13/23:59GMT. I remind you that you should be
registered officially at the IEEE web site to vote. (We will
help you do this if our vote tabulator determines you are not.)
You should send your vote to George Corliss at:
george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The formal rules are, if you vote "No," you should state
the reasons and the changes that, if made to the document,
would cause you to vote "Yes."
Since this motion is just a position paper, it is governed
by 10.1 and 10.5 of our policies and procedures, namely,
it will pass by a simple majority. A quorum is determined
by 10.4 of our policies and procedures document.
I append the actual motion, along with the proposer's Rationale.
(Although there was some discussion, no substantive amendments
were formally proposed, so the motion upon which we are voting
is the one originally stated.)
Sincerely,
R. Baker Kearfott
(acting chair, P1788)
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Motion P1788/M0001.01_StandardizedNotation
Proposer: J D Pryce
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The P1788 standard will initially use the notation proposed in
the paper "Standardized notation in interval analysis" by R.B.
Kearfott, M.T. Nakao, A. Neumaier, S.M. Rump, S.P. Shary, and P.
van Hentenryck, available at
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/papers.html
This notation will be open to amendment after sufficient
experience of using it.
The standard will include a copy of the above paper (as possibly
amended) in an appendix.
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==Rationale==
As that paper itself says, interval notation is somewhat
fragmented at present. Here is the view of some experts who have
thought hard about this issue. We can do great service to
interval computation for many years ahead by helping to
disseminate their recommended practice, and following it
ourselves.
Rather than spend preliminary time debating whether we want to
amend the proposed standard notation, I think it is more
fruitful for us all to accept it as it is for now, and accept
the discipline of following its notation for future position
papers. In due course, either we are satisfied we can accept it
permanently, or some of us are so annoyed by its perceived
deficiencies that we have some constructive changes to make.
The motion does not say that all position papers SHALL use this
notation. I just strongly recommend this, so we get experience
of using it.
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