From isaak@ljo.dec.com Mon Aug 5 16:08:00 1996 Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA12311 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 16:07:54 +0200 Received: from vanna.ljo.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.2/1.0/WV) id JAA07976; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:59:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from csac by vanna.ljo.dec.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/10Oct94-8.2MPM) id AA27180; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:57:44 -0400 Received: by csac.ljo.dec.com; id AA13304; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:58:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:58:01 -0400 From: JimIsaak Message-Id: <9608051358.AA13304@csac.ljo.dec.com> To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: European "Standards on Trial" conference, Nov 5-6 Cc: isaak@ljo.dec.com Cen/Cenelec/ETSI are sponsoring a conference in November where they want to have a debate/discussion of the European Standards "do they still fufil their purpose as trade facilitators, are they representing state of the art technology, are they lagging behind in a world where product life-cycles are getting shorter and shorter. These and other questions will be addressed at a conference "Standards on trial: case studies in European Standardization." Besides attending (for info contact: Cenelect, 1050 Brussels, +32 2 519 68 89; fax +32 2 519 69 19) Persons are invited to submit abstracts by Sept. 15th, selected contributors will be given 10-15 mintues to present, and then to participate in an open debate as part of a panel discussion. I think it would be interesting to have a discussion on the pros/cons/successes/non-successes of the POSIX standards in such a forum ... we would need folks who know the technology and products (WG15 and X/Open types come to mind; maybe Europen??) ... and it would be very useful to have folks who are on the buying side (EC, Public Sector folks from countries, private sector ... including someone who has decided to use NT or such moving away from the UNIX/POSIX environment) .... I can't do much from my side "of the pond" to encourage particpation than getting this idea out, but maybe a few of our European participants could send in an abstract (I would imagine that if they get multiples on a subject they are more likely to pick that topic for one of the sessions.) ... so give them a shot. Send abstracts to the same FAX number ... Let me know if you do, I'd be curious as to the results Thanks jim