SUO: IFF Comments, Going Forward
All,
On October 4, 2001 the IFF Editing Team asked for comments on the IFF
starter documents. In response to a request from Matthew West, the
original 'closing' date for this initial round of comments was changed
from October 18, 2001 to October 29, 2001.
This week we have been busy assimilating these comments.
You can see our work so far at
http://suo.ieee.org/IFF/comments/cindex.html
The guts of that Web page (which also has links to certain subsets
of comments for easy reference) are as follows (dashed lines used only
for demarcation):
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We received 32 messages, with "IFF Comments Requested" in the subject
line, between October 4, 2001 and October 29, 2001.
11 of the 32 messages were not considered further, since they did not
appear to directly address specific points in the IFF starter documents.
18 of the 32 messages dealt, at least partly, with the question of "Why
Category Theory?" for the IFF.
These 18 messages also contain other threads that have yet to be
indentified. We will work to identify these other threads in the coming
days.
3 of the 32 messages deal with other threads, yet to be parsed out.
We would like to begin the focused discussion, based on those Why
Category Theory comments.
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Essentially, we were able to spin out of the comments one thread that
received a lot of attention. (We are working on other threads and will be
assimilating them soon.)
We call the topic of this thread "Why Category Theory?"
I will shortly start a new IFF thread on this topic.
If I have made any errors at the Web site, please let me know off list.
I will correct them and respond to the list.
Thanks,
Jim Farrugia
with input from
Leo Obrst and
Robert Kent