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- >From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
-
- >Before I get into the technical reactions, I'd like to make public
- >complaints about the way that the IEEE is handling access to draft
- >materials from the 1003 working groups. I have contacted the IEEE
- >by phone and postal mail asking how to get mailings of the drafts
- >so that I can comment on the proposals on a timely basis. The IEEE
- >has verbally indicated that they "would get back to me" with details
- >on how to do this but have not. My employer isn't going to send me
- >off to actually join the committees and I'm not independantly wealthy
- >so it just isn't possible for me to take a more direct role.
-
- Actually, it is possible. Monthly in this newsgroup you will find an
- article that lists contact addresses for all the IEEE 1003, IEEE 1201,
- X3J11, ISO, and related standards and related bodies. All the IEEE
- standards committees have mailing lists which anyone can subscribe to
- (you may be required to be a member of IEEE). There is a fee, which is
- usually about $100 per group per year. You don't have to attend the
- meetings to get the mailings. It is quite possible that IEEE sometimes
- doesn't respond as quickly as would be desired, but that's a different
- question (which I will attempt to answer in a few days under while
- wearing a different hat).
-
- That article, Subject: Access to UNIX-Related Standards,
- is currently kept up to date by Susanne W. Smith of Windsound
- Consulting, which is why you now see it being posted again after a nine
- month hiatus after the first two years or so when I posted it. If you
- feel information is missing from it, or if you have other comments you
- want to make about it or its companion articles, send mail to her at
- sws@calvin.wa.com or me and we will attend to it. The next version
- of those articles will appear in the next week or so.
-
- John S. Quarterman, Texas Internet Consulting <jsq@longway.tic.com>
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 87
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