I think Martin's comments are quite compelling. I vote for that approach if anyone's counting <br><br>Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Badger <<a href="mailto:bwbadger@gmail.com">bwbadger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear all,<br>
<br>
The vote on the administration of our standards work has a couple of<br>
more days to run. At present the clear leader is that we administer<br>
things ourselves. I think that this is a reflection of how important<br>
transparency and openness is to most people.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=htasnxt27fcezxzg" target="_blank">http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=htasnxt27fcezxzg</a><br>
<br>
Assuming that this is the final outcome, we then need to work out<br>
*how* we administer ourselves.<br>
<br>
One approach is to go it completely alone and to follow something like<br>
the JCP (as suggested by Paolo and others, which *we* may wish to call<br>
the SCP) or even come up with out own process.<br>
<br>
Another is to do the above, but in *addition* support the formal ANSI<br>
process. This was discussed in a recent thread on this list and is<br>
perhaps best captured by Martin McClure's post:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lists.openskills.org/pipermail/ansi-smalltalk/2008-February/000237.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openskills.org/pipermail/ansi-smalltalk/2008-February/000237.html</a><br>
<br>
This would mean that we would have two separate processes. One of<br>
which is open and community driven, and the other which takes<br>
direction from the first operates within the formal ANSI framework.<br>
The work of the community project should then constantly be a<br>
pre-cursor to each new version of the ANSI standard.<br>
<br>
Anyway, the vote is still open so please make your views known by<br>
voting and or posting a message here.<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
Bruce<br>
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