SUO: Re: Program wants to work with SUO documents
Murray,
Any group that announces its participation is not secret.
Truly secretive organizations monitor whatever they might
want to see without making their presence known.
MA> ... but one must also note that not everyone
> has neutral feelings about the presence of a secretive
> US military project in what is ostensibly an open and
> international project. It's not that there's something
> wrong with such involvement in and of itself, but this
> new knowledge may be a deciding factor in the
> reconstitution of this group's participants.
John B's points are important:
JB> When I've worked in the States I have also been on DoD
> contracts; but only ones that had full clearance of everything,
> no restrictions on publication, no restriction on access of
> results, no determination of content or of approach/direction,
> and all of the other things mentioned in Stefano Borgo's
> mail. These issues do not yet appear to have been settled
> satisfactorily in the "discussion" so far.
The SUO is an IEEE sponsored activity, and not a DoD activity.
Any group that participates in the SUO must abide by the
requirements for complete openness that Stefano has outlined.
Bottom line: The people you really have to worry about
are ones whose affiliation or even existence is unknown.
John