Re: SUO: SUMO / IFF
[Sorry to continue this, but just for the record ... I saw Chris's and Graham's E-mails ... I'm not interested in extending this discussion, but I felt I needed to clarify Bob's incorrect notion of "privileged status" since Chris was using it in his E-mail. Hopefully, this is the last E-mail I have to send on the "privileged status" topic. FYI, I reviewed the following E-mail with an IEEE standards administrator this morning to verify correctness. -FF]
At 14:49 2001-08-29 -0700, Robert Grayson Spillers wrote:
> ...
> Pardon me while I wipe off enough mud to be able to point out what I think it was intended to obscure:
>
> (1) Teknowledge's desire to gain and maintain a privileged status vis-a-vis other contributors.
It has been pointed out several times that there is no such thing as "privileged status" in IEEE standards development. Furthermore, the SUMO document (now approved, pending some procedural issues) is now SUO's document, not Teknowledge's. I'm certain that any IEEE standards administrator would agree with my statement (and disagree with your label of "privileged").
From my perspective, it seems like you keep trying to attach "privileged" to a company and/or document and that there is some negative connotation associated with this "privileged" status. It's not clear what point you are trying to make ... even if there were some notion of "privileged", what would it be? And more importantly: So What? Is your main concern that some individuals actually volunteered to make a constructive contribution? That's what it seems like to me: it seems that you are worried that every volunteer that makes a contribution will now have some "privileged" status ... which makes it sound like you don't like volunteers contributing proposals ... which is obstructionist in the nature of IEEE standard development work.
From your postings, it doesn't sound like you are familiar with the accredited standards development process. I encourage you (and others) to become more familiar with the process ... without this familiarity, you are likely to be frustrated by misunderstandings about the process. Hopefully, you will participate in the training session when IEEE offers it.
-FF
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