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Re: SUO: Updated SUMO??




Bob,
   As Frank has quite clearly explained though, that wouldn't be a 
standards effort.  If that's the process you want to follow, ok, but an 
IEEE group is not the place to do it.  IEEE specifies a different 
process.  Start a discussion group or industry consortium effort elsewhere.

Adam

At 09:26 PM 8/24/2001 -0700, Robert Grayson Spillers wrote:

>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
>

Adam Pease
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