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- Submitted-by: gerwitz@hpcore.uucp (Paul Gerwitz)
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- In article <130193@uunet.UU.NET>, pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) writes:
- |> Submitted-by: pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson)
- |>
- |> The final decision of the SEC (Sponsor Executive Committee), the body
- |> charged with making a decision about the PARs, was effectively to say:
- |> at this time, we will not go ahead with accepting the proposals as
- |> POSIX projects.
- |>
- |> Was the decision of the SEC wrong?
- |>
- |> Peter Collinson
- |> Usenix Standards Representative
- |>
- I feel the SEC was correct. No reputable standards body should be party to
- any requests of this type. This particular action by OSF and Sun(UI)
- demonstrates the lack of integrity both organizations possess as far as
- promoting their various views. The standards process is meant to come up
- with a consensus of TECHNICAL merits for a given technolgy. What has been
- demonstrated by these two groups through their marketing as well as the
- reports I have seen from IEEE 1204 is that they are unwilling to debate the
- TECHNICAL issues in an open forum. Such debate would produce a standard
- which would be better than anything either can offer alone. And isn't the
- standards process really for the benefit of the users, not the suppliers?
- This manuvering doesn't seem to further the users goals or needs, but
- simply gives the supplier another feather for the marketing cap.
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