Re: small correction to the Vienna Proposal
Michel et al,
Please see my inserted comments.
Baker
On 2/23/2009 10:10 AM, Michel Hack wrote:
Another needed fix is the formula for MidRad conversion:
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Since it is likely that the Vienna Proposal will be formally proposed
as a base for further motions by a motion at some point, we should
try to fix such glitches now, using our informal procedures, so they
won't require separate motions later.
OK.
I have another informal proposal on this subject: let us try to identify
possible sticky points *before* we start the process of formal motions.
We have isolated several already, and should try to put them into a list
of references to past posts so we can easily find them.
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That's a good idea.
When John Pryce visited me last May, we tried to identify some
controversial aspects, based on the Kulisch proposal and the Schlo\ss
Dagstuhl discussions. Many more have surfaced during informal
discussions on this mailing list, but some basic ones seem to remain
central.
If someone will volunteer to collect these "informal" items, we can
post them as a paper on the web site. I think this would be very
helpful in moving the process forward in an efficient and orderly
fashion. (I feel comfortable asking our secretary to track and
codify only formal actions.)
What I fear is that many of these points interact in critical ways, and
in the heat of discussing and voting on them in isolation one may often
overlook unintended consequences due to such interactions.
Perhaps, but we need to start somewhere, and we can catch such
things in a "second pass," when we vote, paragraph by paragraph
or section by section, on the actual standard wording. However,
we should keep in mind that the time sanctioned by IEEE for the
process is 4 years, although extensions can be given.
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