Re: deadline approaching...

David J Cutts (David@cutts.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:12:39 +0000

It is important that, if there are clarifications made that can assist
effective compliant operation in the real world of the UK rollout then
these need to be

really well done
exposed to the user community
stable

and the UK profile specifiers have to make a clear statement about
inclusion (or otherwise) of the results.

It seems to me that the quality of the work is likely to be enhanced as
a result of the rollout and ISO should be able to respond to that
somehow, but continued transparency is vital.

David

In message <9107AF33506DD211BA6200A024A67EBE2DCF@GRIMBERGEN>, Xavier
MARIE <xavier.marie@cril.com> writes
>Klaus wrote:
>
>>Please note the following: The contributions you may want to make may
>be
>>considered, but there is no obligation for this due to the ISO
>>procedures. It depends on the ISO working group how this late-material
>>would be considered.
>
>Considering such late material is most likely even
>_against_ the ISO procedures, as it does not allow
>all interested parties to review changes before they
>are approved.
>
>If WG12 (i.e. a small number of people) accepts to consider
>such late material, and assuming they miss something
>(if they had been infaillible no corrigendum would be needed, right?),
>then any of you who does not attend WG12 might discover on Dec. 14
>that due to some newly introduced "clarification" posted
>on Friday afternoon
>your formerly compliant application/engine/set-top-box
>has become no longer compliant even though
>you didn't change a word of it,
>and that there is nothing you can do against it any longer.
>
>The minimum that WG12 should feel pressed to do in
>such a case is to circulate the final text among the users
>community so as to make sure nobody feels injured by
>any of the late changes. This would only delay final approval
>(a formal stage which makes little difference as to the
>publicity of the document) by one month, as WG12
>has a further meeting mid-January.
>
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