RE: SUO: RE: Standard Upper Ontology Procedures
John, all:
This sounds pretty reasonable to me.
But what say we all about the ONT list? Should these self-same guidelines
apply to it as well?
For example, would the recent realism/nominalism discussion I have had with
John belong, full-length, there? Or just shorter versions, with links to
supporting/background material that would be contained in the personal
folders?
I'm ok either way.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-standard-upper-ontology@majordomo.ieee.org
[mailto:owner-standard-upper-ontology@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of
John F. Sowa
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:41 PM
To: West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE
Cc: Jon Awbrey; SUO
Subject: Re: SUO: RE: Standard Upper Ontology Procedures
Dear Matthew,
I agree with you that the guidelines for posting some things
to SUO list and other things to a web folder should apply
to all SUO members "with one rule for all":
MW> I do not see this as forcing some people to sit on one
> side or the other. Only as a way of being more effective
> with one rule for all.
The distinction should be that all frequent posters should
request and be allocated a folder on the SUO web site.
As guidelines for what goes in the folders, I suggest:
1. All tutorials, lengthy presentations, and extended
discussions that go into excruciating detail (such as
the recent discussions of nominalism and realism that
Tom and I have engaged in) should be posted to a folder.
2. The primary SUO list should be reserved for the following
kinds of material:
a) New issues of relevance to the SUO. Any member should
be able to decide for himself or herself what issues
are relevant. But anyone else may suggest that any
particular discussion should be moved to a folder.
b) Amy member should be allowed (in fact, encourged) to
make short comments and responses to current issues.
Sometimes, what starts out as a short comment grows
into a lengthy discussion, and anyone on the SUO list,
especially the participants in the debate, should be
able to suggest that it be continued in folder mode.
c) News items about anything relevant to the SUO.
Sometimes these items may contain a URL pointing
either to an SUO folder page or to some outside
web site.
d) Periodic updates about subjects that have been
posted to a folder with the URL of the web page.
These postings should also include some excerpts
from the web page that would give the readers
some idea of topic and the issues being discussed.
This policy should eliminate the need for special discussion
lists for various topics, such as the ONT list. What gets
posted to a folder should include all the relevant interchanges,
so that anybody who was interested could see the full discussion.
The policy of what goes to a folder or to the general list would
be decided by each sender, guided by common rules of courtesy
in trying to avoid repeated requests to move discussions offline.
John Sowa