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RE: PWG> Document numbering - Candidates vs Standards

From: don@lexmark.com
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 07:23:57 EST

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    ... and should we decide to number standards from the beginning of their
    life like the IEEE does, then we could prefix it with "P" for "project" or
    "preliminary."

    P5300.1 Skywriting Print Standard (Project)
    CS5300.1 Skywriting Print Standard (Candidate Standard)
    STD5300.1 Skywriting Print Standard (Standard)

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     Don Wright don@lexmark.com

     Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board
     Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors
     f.wright@ieee.org / f.wright@computer.org

     Director, Alliances & Standards
     Lexmark International
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    "Hastings, Tom N" <hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com>@pwg.org on 03/13/2003
    05:42:08 PM

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    Subject: RE: PWG> Document numbering - Candidates vs Standards

    An other alternative is to keep the same number, but have some letter
    prefixes, such as CS to mean candidate standard.

    Thus the official PWG number for a Candidate Standard versus Standard for
    Skywritting would be:

    Ex CS-5300.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (Candidate Standard)
       STD-5350.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (STANDARD)

    For example, I seem to recall that ANSI standards say BSR nnnn for a draft
    standard (which stands for Board of Standard Review, as I recall) while the
    standard is being voted on.

    Tom

    Original Message-----
    From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl@us.ibm.com]
    Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 13:48
    To: don@lexmark.com
    Cc: pwg@pwg.org
    Subject: PWG> Document numbering - Candidates vs Standards

    Don, we're struggling in the PWG process discussion about ISTO numbers and
    when and how they should be assigned in the process. First, we said no ISTO
    number until STANDARD. Some feel Candidate Standards should have numbers
    and
    we're considering a hack on the numbering to indicate CS from STANDARD.

    Ex 5300.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (Candidate Standard)
       5350.1 = Skywriting Print Standard (STANDARD)

    You (and others) must have experience with IEEE standards progression
    (1284.x). Can you shed some light on the IEEE/ISTO numbering, what level of
    maturity they expect when a number is assigned, how we might go about
    assigning numbers to CS as well as S?
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    Harry Lewis
    IBM Printing Systems
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