SUO: Re: The SUMO is not a Starter Document
John,
The current ruling of the chair was that the vote on SUMO succeeded, and
so SUMO is a starter document. If that vote somehow gets overturned, then
the web site would get changed to reflect that. There's no lack of clarity
except what others are trying to inject in order to overturn a vote they
don't like.
You're statement about this being a "misunderstanding" seems
disingenuous to me. We agreed to support each other's motions, no more, no
less. Now you've reneged on that agreement. I'm not sure why you feel
it's somehow procedurally virtuous for IFF to be an approved starter
document but not for other proposals to be so approved.
I would hope again, that instead of trying to block SUMO that you take a
positive approach and write some standards words for a starter document
that you believe in.
Adam
At 01:31 PM 6/18/2003 -0500, John F. Sowa wrote:
>Adam,
>
>I am sorry, but I misunderstood your intent. I was happy to
>endorse SUMO as a candidate on the same footing as OpenCyc,
>but not as something with higher status than OpenCyc.
>
> > I'm disappointed in your note, and feel that you've reneged
> > on our agreement to support each other's motions.
>
>I am extremely disappointed that you have posted a statement
>that implies SUMO has a more privileged status than OpenCyc.
>If I had understood that to be your position, I would never
>have voted for motion #1 and I would have insisted that we
>have a vote to give OpenCyc the same status.
>
> > Both votes passed, according to the rules clearly stated by
> > the chair. We should be able to disagree about the technical
> > merits of each other's proposals without engaging in this
> > sort of maneuvering.
>
>The last thing I want is more procedural maneuvering, and I
>am very disappointed that you have posted a statement that
>implies that SUMO has higher status than OpenCyc.
>
>Please remove that statement from the web site ASAP.
>Otherwise, I believe that there are two options:
>
> 1. Go through more wrangling with appeals.
>
> 2. Have another vote to clarify the point that
> SUMO and OpenCyc have equal status.
>
>John