ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15RIN N134



Title: Organisation of work on Guide for National POSIX Profiles and locales

Source: Danish Standards Association

Date: 1994-10-23

References: WG15 N499 AI 9405-44

Action: For WG15 Whistler meeting


Danish Standards Association has considered how to work on the Guideline
 for National POSIX profiles and Locales. We offer the following comments:

1. Danish Standards Association is not affiliated IEEE, and cannot officially
   attend IEEE meetings.
2. We have limited resources, both in time and money, and would
   like to limit the travel. That would mean that the meetings concerned
   with this project need to be done in conjunction with WG15 meetings,
   where DS will participate. Also use of non-meeting working tools
   like email would be much preferred.
3. DS have been one of the originators of the project, and proposed
   leaders of the previous Guide for national locales, which is now
   an integral part of the project. We find it essential that we
   can participate in all of the development work.
4. In this project there is much liaison work, with SGFS, SC22/WG20
   and the ISO member bodies, which is the audience of the TR.
   IEEE is not well suited for this liaison job, while WG15 has
   already all these liaisons established and working.
5. Almost all input till date has been from RIN, and with little
   input from IEEE. Having IEEE take over the responsibilities
   would need some take-over time.
6. There may be problems with IEEE maintenance procedures, which
   seem different from ISO procedures. DS would like to be able to
   participate in technical corrigenda, interpretation etc on
   the same conditions that we do on other ISO work.
7. IEEE is an organisation making standards for the engineering
   community. This document is a Technical Report directed towards
   ISO member bodies, and thus a document type very different from
   normal IEEE documnets. On the other hand, ISO is an association
   of member bodies, and the document type is thus well suited for
   ISO.

Based on these comments DS proposes the following structure for the work:

1. It is run as a WG15 project, in normal ISO style.
2. The editorship is Japanese, as earlier decided by RIN. DS can offer
   coeditorship.
3. The work is been done over email and in conjunction with WG15 meetings
   We would be happy to hold joint meetings with an IEEE group created
   for this purpose, it could also just be US experts attending the
   meeting. A natural place to do the development would be RIN, which
   has done all the work previously.
4. The secretariat could be the WG15 secretariat, which is closely
   related to the IEEE secretariat, so we can combine the strengths
   of both. It could also be the RIN secretariat. If much of the work is
   done on email, the secretariat function is less important.

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Keld Simonsen
Keld@dkuug.dk