From rinehuls@Radix.Net Mon Apr 26 18:09:33 1999 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [209.48.224.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA19158; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:09:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rinehuls@Radix.Net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [209.48.224.40]) by mail1.radix.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA04625; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:09:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:09:26 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: N2915 - SC22 Comments on Proposed MOU Between ISO and ITTF Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ______________________ beginning of title page ________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2915 TITLE: SC22 Response to ISO/IEC JTC 1 Request for Comments on the Proposed Memorandum of Understanding Between ISO and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-04-24 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2902 DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@radix.net _____________ end of title page; beginning of first letter ______________ To: Lisa Rajchel, Secretariat, JTC 1 Subject: SC 22 Comments on JTC 1 N 5777 Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between ISO and IFIP SC 22 desires to maintain the cooperative relationship which we have had with IFIP. We are therefore concerned that the proposed procedure, based upon ISO Procedures, apparently does not include any role for JTC 1 and does not include any consideration of JTC 1 Procedures. It would appear that any IFIP standards that are in the area of work assigned to JTC 1 should be processed in a way that is aligned with the JTC 1 Procedures (current or with appropriate modification) and that includes consideration by the appropriate JTC 1 subcommittee and by the National Bodies of JTC 1. We would certainly want to avoid any possible future competition between IFIP and JTC 1 standardization efforts that could potentially result from a lack of JTC 1 participation in the international standardization process for IFIP documents. Thank you for the opportunity of commenting on this document. Unfortunately, the time available for commenting on this document was extremely short and we were unable to receive comments from our liaison officer to IFIP during this period. Robert H. Follett Chairman, SC22 _____ end of first letter; beginning of second letter __________________ To: Lisa Rajchel, Secretariat, JTC 1 Subject: Additional SC 22 Comments on JTC 1 N 5777 Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between ISO and IFIP We have now received comments from the SC 22 liaison to IFIP and would like to modify our comments as follows. While our previous comments would apply if IFIP were developing standards that might overlap with JTC 1, this is not the case. IFIP is not developing standards on products, or protocols, or services, but on IT professionals (i.e., personnel). Consequently, it does not appear possible that there would be any competition between IFIP and JTC 1 standardization efforts. Our liaison officer favors the MOU between ISO and IFIP and the process of standardization contained therein. Accordingly, we see no reason for JTC 1 not to support the MOU as written. Robert H. Follett Chairman, SC 22 ____________________ end of SC22 N2915 ________________________________