Re: SUO: RE: Generic questions for SUMO
Jim,
When this statement arrives will it be an official written communication of
IEEE? Any thing else is just an individual's opinion.
Bob
"Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I" wrote:
> Lee,
>
> Most of your questions are good, but address some of the others.
>
> Question e (on source of resources) should not be asked. Frank Farance
> contacted IEEE and tells me a statement is forthcoming from IEEE to put a
> halt to requests for disclosure questions of this sort.
>
> However, why not ask something like:
>
> Does this document have a volunteer Technical Editor? What is his or
> her level, nature, and duration of commitment?
> What other SUO members are currently committed to doing the work needed
> to complete this document?
>
> Regarding encumbrances, Adam Pease from Tecknowledge has already signed and
> sent me a standard copyright release letter for this document, so we're
> fully covered here.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josiah Lee Auspitz
> To: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Sent: 7/21/01 5:56 AM
> Subject: SUO: Generic questions for SUMO
>
> Ian,
>
> To lay out further some of the specifications of SUMO, here is a
> checklist of generic questions designed to assist in clarifying the
> character of any working document to be accepted into SUO.
>
> a) do you object to calling the final document that may evolve from your
> submission a reference ontology or a reference object?
>
> b) would you state clearly those conceptual and methodological features
> of
> the proposed document which are so fundamental to it as not to be open
> to
> amendment?
>
> c) what prior work has gone into the candidate ontology?
>
> d) please estimate what further work is needed to bring it to a fully
> developed reference object (or "standard");
>
> e) what future resources are available for the candidate ontology in the
> form of contracts, budgets or grants directly supporting its development
> and including the names of participants in SUO working under such
> support;
>
> f) do these future resources include the human resource of at least one
> person who has agreed to serve as technical editor;
>
> g) please disclose any proprietary encumbrances on your document: e.g.
> proprietary algorithms, axioms, methods, processes or microtheories
> essential to the effective use of the envisaged final work product.
>
> The aim of these items is to give active participants, including those
> in
> non-profit organizations, sufficient information on which to make an
> informed commitment of limited time and resources.
>
> Lee
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