From rex@RexJaeschke.com Sun May 27 03:48:48 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 06:47:47 -0400 From: Rex Jaeschke Subject: Rob Weir's Comments: Page 01, Comment 02-07, "Electronc Annexes in a humanly readable, lined-numbered format" To: patrick@durusau.net, "'Dave Welsh'" , "'Doug Mahugh'" , "'Frank Farance'" , "'Jerry Smith'" , "'Jon Bosak'" , "'Levine, Leonard F CIV DISA GES-E'" , "'Norm Walsh'" , "'Lynne A. Price'" , "'Richard Barber'" , "'Robert Weir'" , "'Steve Carton'" , "'Tim Schoechle'" , "'Mason, James David (MXM)'" , "'Kevin Trainor'" Organization: C#, VB, .NET, C, C++, Java Seminars and Consulting Content-language: en-us Thread-index: AcegRUa8FzAyPMrORBy9bJTFpscgdQ== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 In the "Proposed change by the MB" column, Rob proposes, "The annex should be provided in a humanly readable, lined-numbered format so it can be referenced and cited. Additionally, an electronic machine readable version can be provided according to Annex H" Certainly, the contents of the electronic annexes could be replicated in-line in the text. However, as Rob proposed, once there, for them to be usable, they'd need to have some mechanism so they can "be referenced and cited". Unfortunately, the editing guidelines for an IS do not allow it to contain line numbers. (I added line numbers to the DIS to make it easier to refer to lines under discussion. However, in the final standard, these will all be removed.) If anyone has a suggestion about how one might make such referencing possible, I'm "all ears". Separately, if we choose to forward these comments, I suggest we combine them into one general comment. My concern here is that at the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM), each separate comment discussed will take a certain amount of time for administrative overhead, plus time to address the specific comment. As such, I think if six related comments can be resolved as one, that would be welcomed by BRM attendees. Rex