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Subject: X3J14 Holding Pattern Here
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Date: 17 May 91 11:36:53 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 12
Message 72        Wed May 15, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 21:29 EDT
 
> How long?  If we let it lay in the "review" period, people will
 > lose interest.

I submit that this was because of bad management of the X3J14 effort.  (No
offense intended.)  Had it been accepted from the beginning that an
"implementation period" would be required, then a lid could have been put on
major changes perhaps a year ago, and the final year of the standards effort
could have been devoted to a) building sample implementations, b) taking care
of the finicky details, and c) filling in the rationale notes and the rest of
the BASIS document.  (Incidental note: the TC did put a cut-off on major
changes in submissions.  But within the TC, anything goes.)

The TC is remiss in not budgeting time for this as part of the effort. 
Instead, they're in the position of a programmer who is frantically coding up
to the last minute, and who hasn't budgeted time for proper testing or
documentation.

BTW, the test suite idea may still fizzle with Nick.  He'd like to have a
student work on this, but somehow all his students manage to come up with
alternate projects when this is suggested.

- Brad
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