Re: SUO: Updated SUMO??

[Robert Grayson Spillers <skydog@postoffice.pacbell.net>]

And if the SUMO vote fails the status will be that no document 
(including the SUMO) will enjoy any privilege over any other document - 
in contrast to the SUMO having a privileged position if the vote stands.  


No contributor will have to win a vote to have their document considered 
(along with the others).  No one (or company) will be able to assert 
that their work is the presumed heir to the standard.   Anyone can offer 
changes to any of the documents.

Bob

Schoening, James R CECIL DCSC4I wrote:

>Ian,
>
>	Please allow me to play the devil's advocate here.
>
>	If the SUMO vote stands (which I am on record as believing it will),
>that means you can no longer make changes on your own to the document.  You
>can post proposed changes (if you have some consensus), but you need to
>clearly distinguish between the version approved by the group and any
>proposed later revisions.
>
>	You'll also need to distinguish between your role as a major
>contributor and your possible role as the Technical Editor.  The Technical
>Editor must follow the consensus of the active participants.  As
>contributor, you can propose whatever you'd like and fight for it, but you
>can't decide to put something in unless you have some degree of consensus.
>I'm sure you'll know it if people objects to any changes. 
>
>Jim Schoening
>	 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Niles [mailto:iniles@teknowledge.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:28 PM
>To: Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)
>Subject: SUO: SUMO Announcements
>
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>	I'd like to announce two things:
>
>1.  New version of SUMO.  I've loaded version 1.17 of SUMO into the browser.
>The most significant differences between this version and the last one that
>was loaded into the browser (1.15) are an enriched hierarchy of processes
>(based on Beth Levin's work), an attempt to include some aspects of speech
>acts theory (under the node 'Communication'), and a revision of the naming
>scheme which we discussed a few weeks back (on the new scheme hyphens and
>vacuous prepositions have been eliminated).  Of course, all of these
>additions and revisions are subject to change based on the group's
>assessment of them, so please let me know if you disagree with anything that
>I've done here.  As always, the ontology browser and all versions of the
>SUMO source files can be accessed at:
>http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/index.html
>
>2.  New version of SUMO documentation.  We've reworked the overview of SUMO
>that's available at http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/arch.html.
>We've reorganized sections, added informal descriptions, added many new
>terms, and hyperlinked all SUMO terms.  We hope this will continue to
>function as a useful guide to the distinctions and content embodied in the
>ontology.  Let me know if you have any suggestions about how to improve this
>document.
>
>-Ian
>