Motion P1788/M0001.01_StandardizedNotation: Voting through Feb. 13
IEEE P1788 working group members:
Reminder: Voting on Motion P1788/M0001.01_StandardizedNotation continues
through Feb. 13 23:59GMT by posting to stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Baker's
announcement of the motion and voting appears below.
At this point, we have 34 YES votes and zero NO votes from the 50 registered
electors.
To be eligible to vote, you must be registered with IEEE. If you wish to
register, Baker's instructions appear below after the motion.
We encourage all interested parties to vote (register if necessary). Even
though this motion does not appear to be controversial, our IEEE Policies
and Procedures expect all registered voters to vote on every motion.
George Corliss, P1788 Voting Tabulator
IEEE P1788 working group members:
I must apologize for an additional oversight of mine.
In particular, the proposer of Motion 1 (John Pryce)
sent an addendum to his rationale as follows:
=====
Note added after the discussion period:
Various people have pointed out perceived deficiencies in the
proposed notation. There has been useful discussion on this.
But no one has proposed a formal amendment to the motion.
Therefore it goes forward to a vote in its original form.
Please note you are not asked to fit into a notational strait-jacket.
The motion asks you to take the Notation Paper for what it is, and to
"follow" it flexibly, as is appropriate for your application.
=====
Please take that into consideration in your voting, which
may be by posting to stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sincerely,
Ralph Baker Kearfott
(acting chair, P1788)
-------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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)
===============================================================
Motion P1788/M0001.01_StandardizedNotation
Proposer: J D Pryce
=====
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.
=====
==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.
===============================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------
R. Baker Kearfott, rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (337) 482-5346 (fax)
(337) 482-5270 (work) (337) 993-1827 (home)
URL: http://interval.louisiana.edu/kearfott.html
Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(Room 217 Maxim D. Doucet Hall, 1403 Johnston Street)
Box 4-1010, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010, USA
---------------------------------------------------------------
R. Baker Kearfott (acting chair, IEEE 1788 working group)
===============================================================
IEEE interval arithmetic working group members,
We have been requested to make our participation official
by logging on to the IEEE web site and confirming our
name and affiliation (University of Karlsruhe, etc.) You
do not need to be an IEEE member to do this, but you do need
to have an IEEE web account, if you do not already have one.
Doing this official process accomplishes the following:
(a) It makes votes you submit official.
(b) It provides IEEE insurance against the results of your
activities on the working group, regardless of whether
or not you are an IEEE member.
The process is as follows. (Skip steps 1 to 3 if you already
have an IEEE web account.)
1. Go to IEEE.org
2. In the "What do you want to do" column on the right, click on
"set up IEEE web account"
3. Click on "Create an IEEE Web Account" and follow the instructions.
4. Once you have an IEEE user name and password, go to
standards.ieee.org and click on the "Standards Development" tab.
5. Click on "Log-in to MyProject."
6. You are presented with the login page. Put in your user name
and password and thus login.
7. On the next screen, click on "Manage Activity Profile."
8. You will be presented with a set of overall IEEE organizations,
whose activities can be expanded by clicking on the "+" to the
left of the names. Click on the "+" by "IEEE Computer Society."
9. In the resulting list under IEEE Computer Society, click on
the "+" by "Microprocessor Standards Committee."
10.In the list under "Microprocessor Standards Committee," click on
the "+" by "Working Group for Interval Arithmetic,"
then check all appropriate boxes.
11. Click on the "Continue" button at the bottom of the page.
12. It will then ask you questions, such as "Affiliation." (It
won't ask you private information.) Fill in the information.
That's it :-)
If anyone has questions or problems, please tell me, so we
can work them out.
Sincerely,
Baker