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- From: sws@calvin.uucp (Susanne Smith)
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- >2. Opinion polling
- >
- > John tried to discern whether attendees thought they were being
- > well-served by John, the USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee,
- > and the USENIX position on standards: to attempt to prevent
- > standards from prohibiting innovation. Indeed, at Snowbird, the
- > site of the April POSIX meeting, John was told that smaller
- > companies don't like our participation because of this position.
- > Think about this a while. (For a more detailed discussion of
- > the USENIX position on standards, see either ;login: 15(3):25 or
- > the periodic overview posting in comp.std.unix about the USENIX
- > Standards Watchdog Committee.)
- >
- > John explained how USENIX came to its current policies and why
- > it does not endorse standards of its own. Some audience members
- > were unhappy with extant standards bodies and said they wouldn't
- > mind if USENIX played a more active role. Susanne reminded us
- > that UniForum working groups, which she praised, play such a
- > role.
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- What I remember about this portion of the bof is a little bit different.
- John had been talking about the new procedures developed by the TCOS
- (IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems)
- SEC (Standards Executive Committee) to limit the proliferation of
- standards groups and to make sure that groups in existence
- made acceptable progress (see Volume 19, Number 97). The question was
- asked as to what other forums are available for groups that do not gain
- SEC approval. The UniForum Technical Committees were mentioned as one
- forum for work that might be premature or inappropriate for TCOS.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 55
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