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- Submitted-by: ahby@uinj.UI.ORG (Shane McCarron)
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- > 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.
-
- I agree wholeheartedly, but would stress that UI had nothing to do
- with the OPEN LOOK PAR, and that we actively opposed it within the
- SEC. UI did offer our User Interface work group to act as ballot
- arbiters, should a ballot occur. This was done at the request of our
- member Sun Microsystems, and because we believed that a neutral
- organization would do a better job of reviewing ballot objections.
-
- > 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.
-
- Precisely!
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- Shane P. McCarron ATT: +1 201 263-8400 x232
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 50
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