From owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org Thu May 31 12:28:20 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_x3+FygsAq9NNQ4zN7UKaVw)" Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:27:31 -0400 From: Ron Silletti Subject: Re: INCITS-V1: V1 History, IBM on K Street In-reply-to: <0CE25263F839BA44AFDDB7A786BAB8B70E4F7DDD@Y12MAIL01.y12.doe.gov> Sender: owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org To: incits-v1@incits-v1.org Reply-to: incits-v1@incits-v1.org X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D01ML251/01/M/IBM(Release 7.0.2HF32 | October 17, 2006) at 05/31/2007 15:27:40, Serialize complete at 05/31/2007 15:27:40 X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 This is a multipart message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_x3+FygsAq9NNQ4zN7UKaVw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Jim, the old address was probably 1801 K Street...the new address is 1301 K Street...currently just one block away from ITI... Best regards, Ron Silletti "Mason, James David \(MXM\)" Sent by: owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org 05/31/2007 03:07 PM Please respond to incits-v1@incits-v1.org To cc Subject INCITS-V1: V1 History, IBM on K Street I can't come to the June meeting in Washington, but seeing that it's at the IBM office on K Street puts me in mind of the very first meeting of V1, back in November 1981. The organizational meeting of X3V1, as the committee was then known, was at CBEMA (Computer and Business Machine Manufacturers Association), the ancestor of ITIC, the host of INCITS. It was at that time near K Street. At that time, X3V1 was focused on ODA and word-processing applications; I was there because one of my jobs was to build interfaces between a central document production system, which used a form of generic coding over the troff formatter on UNIX, and assorted stand-alone word processors. Chuck Card, the chairman of what was then X3J6, was also there. (X3J6 was, four years later, folded into X3V1 as V1.8; that's when Lynne Price came into V1. V1.8 eventually grew to absorb all of V1 and become the committee as we now know it.) Chuck brought up J6's work on SGML, which was led by Charles Goldfarb, the "G" in IBM's GML. My gradate-school roommate was working as a systems engineer for IBM at a facility on K Street, so I went around the corner and got him to pull me a set of GML introductory documents. I entered those into the initial V1 document register. I can't remember the address of that IBM office, but I'm amused to think that some IBM office on K Street is tied back to the founding of V1 and to the introduction of SGML into the committee's work. (For the record, I was the original secretary of X3V1.3, which was responsible for ODA structure. After about a year, I became secretary of V1. I then was vice-chairman of V1 until I became convenor of SC18/WG8, which absorbed most of the remaining part of SC18 after the end of ODA and became SC34. I did not expect that convenorship to be transmogrified into a 22-year commitment.) Jim Mason --Boundary_(ID_x3+FygsAq9NNQ4zN7UKaVw) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Jim, the old address was probably 1801 K Street...the new address is 1301 K Street...currently just one block away from ITI...

Best regards,

Ron Silletti



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I can't come to the June meeting in Washington, but seeing that it's at the IBM office on K Street puts me in mind of the very first meeting of V1, back in November 1981.

The organizational meeting of X3V1, as the committee was then known, was at CBEMA (Computer and Business Machine Manufacturers Association), the ancestor of ITIC, the host of INCITS. It was at that time near K Street. At that time, X3V1 was focused on ODA and word-processing applications; I was there because one of my jobs was to build interfaces between a central document production system, which used a form of generic coding over the troff formatter on UNIX, and assorted stand-alone word processors. Chuck Card, the chairman of what was then X3J6, was also there. (X3J6 was, four years later, folded into X3V1 as V1.8; that's when Lynne Price came into V1. V1.8 eventually grew to absorb all of V1 and become the committee as we now know it.) Chuck brought up J6's work on SGML, which was led by Charles Goldfarb, the "G" in IBM's GML. My gradate-school roommate was working as a systems engineer for IBM at a facility on K Street, so I went around the corner and got him to pull me a set of GML introductory documents. I entered those into the initial V1 document register.

I can't remember the address of that IBM office, but I'm amused to think that some IBM office on K Street is tied back to the founding of V1 and to the introduction of SGML into the committee's work.

(For the record, I was the original secretary of X3V1.3, which was responsible for ODA structure. After about a year, I became secretary of V1. I then was vice-chairman of V1 until I became convenor of SC18/WG8, which absorbed most of the remaining part of SC18 after the end of ODA and became SC34. I did not expect that convenorship to be transmogrified into a 22-year commitment.)

Jim Mason

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