Hi,
I vastly prefer Tom's suggestion below - the CS or STD prefix qualifies
the 'standards track' progress of a PWG standard - the NUMBER is the
same in both cases - I consider renumbering to entirely lose any of the
(very dubious) advantages gained by assigning IEEE/ISTO numbers to mere
Candidate Standards (rather than only full Standards).
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald
High North Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Hastings, Tom N [mailto:hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:42 PM
To: pwg at pwg.org
Subject: RE: PWG> Document numbering - Candidates vs Standards
An other alternative is to keep the same number, but have some letter
prefixes, such as CS to mean candidate standard.
Thus the official PWG number for a Candidate Standard versus Standard for
Skywritting would be:
Ex CS-5300.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (Candidate Standard)
STD-5350.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (STANDARD)
For example, I seem to recall that ANSI standards say BSR nnnn for a draft
standard (which stands for Board of Standard Review, as I recall) while the
standard is being voted on.
Tom
Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 13:48
To: don at lexmark.com
Cc: pwg at pwg.org
Subject: PWG> Document numbering - Candidates vs Standards
Don, we're struggling in the PWG process discussion about ISTO numbers and
when and how they should be assigned in the process. First, we said no ISTO
number until STANDARD. Some feel Candidate Standards should have numbers and
we're considering a hack on the numbering to indicate CS from STANDARD.
Ex 5300.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (Candidate Standard)
5350.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (STANDARD)
You (and others) must have experience with IEEE standards progression
(1284.x). Can you shed some light on the IEEE/ISTO numbering, what level of
maturity they expect when a number is assigned, how we might go about
assigning numbers to CS as well as S?
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Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
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