RE: Time to request PAR extension
I agree with John's suggestions, and also think Jack's suggestion is a
reasonable summary of current state.
The PAR extension form provides a single field to summarize percent
completion. If an overall percent completion estimate is required, then a
statement along the lines I recommended could be given, combined with the
summaries of reports for each project that John proposes.
Phil Jackson
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> [mailto:owner-standard-upper-ontology@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG]On Behalf Of
> John F. Sowa
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:16 AM
> To: standard-upper-ontology@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
> Subject: Re: Time to request PAR extension
>
>
> Jim, Phil, Jack, et al.,
>
> I have a great deal of sympathy for Jack Ring's
> suggestion (copy below).
>
> But I also support Phil's recommendation. In fact,
> the need to respond to the IEEE is a good opportunity
> for taking stock of the current state of the projects.
>
> The SUO list has been rather quiet lately, and I'm
> sure that all of us would appreciate a review of
> what, if anything, is being done about the projects
> that we have blessed as "candidates".
>
> I suggest that we ask the editors of each of the
> candidate documents to submit a progress report
> on their status.
>
> But from long experience, we have all learned that
> status reports by the developers tend to be over
> optimistic. So I recommend that the report to the
> IEEE should summarize the reports for each project,
> but add a caveat along the lines of Jack's suggestion.
>
> John Sowa
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Time to request PAR extension
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:55:27 -0400
> From: Jack Ring <jring@AMUG.ORG>
> To: <standard-upper-ontology@listserv.ieee.org>
>
> Why not just state the facts, to wit,
>
> "this group now knows enough about the assignment to know
> that they don't know enough about the fulfillment of the
> assignment to be making any judgment about status of such
> fulfillment let alone making any prediction of fulfillment
> date but remains committed to the assignment so requests
> two more years to continue the exploration."
>