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<font color="#0000FF">At 09:56 AM 6/14/2005, Patrick.Plancke@esa.int
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I forgot that we do not use the
same metrics.</font></blockquote><br>
Patrick: the metrics of the CCSDS are those that are visible to its
primary customers. The CCSDS.org website is the primary portal by which
the outside world measures our progress and products. If your work isn't
visible via ccsds.org, you may as well not exist.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font color="#0000FF">About SOIS
mailing list, the lists who are the more currently used by working
people are the TCONS and TCOAS (the SOIS main list includes too
many observers that do not contribute but only
listen).</font></blockquote><br>
The whole point of a mailing list is to communicate, even to observers.
Not using a public list implies that nothing is going on. So what if
people don't contribute? They can always unsubscribe if they get bored or
overloaded by the traffic. But in case of doubt, *communicate*.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font color="#0000FF">For the
CWE, did you look to the private documents, for example in TCONS
you have documents uploaded 13 and 14 June or the Wireless BOF
?</font></blockquote><br>
The private areas are only accessible to people who have CWE log-in
authority. As material becomes ready to expose to public scrutiny it
should <u>always</u> be moved over to the public folder. How else can the
outside world possibly see what's going on? In the last few months I have
had multiple people ask what is happening in SOIS, and I've been
embarrassed to find that there is NOTHING on public view. It appears as
if the whole Area is simply doing nothing.<br><br>
A standards organization should, if nothing else, be open. Documents
should only be hidden from public view in their earliest stages. Once you
get to a White Book stage, mark the document <u>prominently</u> as a
draft and move it to the WG's Public folder. That way you let a lot of
outside people see what is going on and, occasionally, you may get a
really insightful comment from someone who is not intimately involved
with the development.<br><br>
Go take a look at
<a href="http://www.dtnrg.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.dtnrg.org</a>
. If those guys can develop complex specifications in public, why can't
SOIS?<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font color="#0000FF">Anyway ,
we acknowledge the message. Can TCOAS upload the red books ready
for reviews on the CWE ?</font></blockquote><br>
Of course. Why haven't the White Books been in the Public CWE folders for
months?<br><br>
///adrian<br>
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