From owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org Sat Jul 14 12:08:17 2007 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:05:59 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: INCITS-V1: Remarks on the composition of the committee Sender: owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org To: Incits-V1 Reply-to: incits-v1@incits-v1.org X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1184439999-48fb00810000-E618Iy X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.10.100.8:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: unknown[66.110.197.207] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1184439999 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Remarks on the composition of the committee X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at insimail.com Ladies and Gentlemen! I stopped briefly to have my afternoon snack only to return to find posts concerning the composition of the committee. This is *not* helpful. Please, please. My job as chair is difficult enough as it is without members of the committee starting to question why each other are present, etc. You are certainly free to have whatever opinions you like and to express them however you wish, *in other forums*. The V1 reflector is *not* the appropriate place for such discussions. What I find deeply ironic is that as the co-editor of "another" specification is that I have what I think is a good working relationship with all members of V1. If anyone should be having problems it should be me. But I'm not. I wonder why? It is but speculation but I suspect that it is because I grant to everyone a presumption of good faith and confidence that if we try very hard and it is often very hard, that we will be able to do things that we could not do separately, or at least not as well. I realize that emotions are running high after our meeting yesterday that failed to produce a recommendation for the INCITS EB. No one is more aware of that than I am. I have to make the report of that failure. Let me strongly suggest that everyone take a vacation until Monday and then resume posting after having done something fun or at least not on this topic over the weekend. We have much to far to go to start engaging in personal comments and speculations about each other. I cannot order anyone to do anything but I really think the foregoing is good advice. I hope everyone had a pleasant weekend away from this topic. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)