From Miles.Ellis@educational-technology-resources-centre.oxford.ac.uk Mon Jul 24 13:15:56 1995 Received: from oxmail2.ox.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA19745 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 24 Jul 1995 13:13:45 +0200 Received: from vax.ox.ac.uk by oxmail2.ox.ac.uk. with SMTP (PP) id <04028-0@oxmail2.ox.ac.uk.>; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:13:33 +0100 Received: from 163.1.85.1 by vax.ox.ac.uk (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:12:55 +0100 X-Sender: MELLIS@vax.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:15:56 +0100 To: lrr From: Miles.Ellis@educational-technology-resources-centre.oxford.ac.uk (Miles Ellis) Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.833) URGENT Letter Ballot Cc: sc22wg5 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 On Thu, 20 Jul 1995 at 11:25:01 -0500 (CDT) Larry Rolison said: >Comments on vote: I am opposed to the action taken in Tokyo with respect >to these technical reports so I am not interested in speeding up the >processing of them. This mechanism of language standard development is >ridiculously anarchistic. Those people that think that this mechanism >is a good idea should ponder this question for a bit: Would you set foot on >an airplane that was designed in this manner? > It seems to me that there is a fundamental misunderstanding here, as the proposed TRs will still have to go through exactly the same international review and approval procedure as will the full standard, in due course. To respond to Larry's aeroplane analogy I would suggest that it is rather as if the manufacturers of an airliner came up with a new feature which would improve the fuel efficiency (or even safety!) of their existing planes. They could either carry out exhaustive tests and then offer it as a modification to their customers' existing aircraft, or they could carry out the same exhaustive tests and introduce it only on their next major new plane. I know which approach I would prefer! Miles ======================================================================= Dr Miles Ellis CCCCCCCCCCC Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre C C University of Oxford, 37-41 Wellington Square C E Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND C T C R Telephone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527 C C Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk CCCCCCCCCCC =======================================================================