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WIMS> Counter class terms Work --> Activity / Job --> Work

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 12:51:49 EDT

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    Hi,

    I propose the following two terminology changes to fix the current
    overloading of the word 'Job' for two entirely unrelated meanings
    in the Counter Spec:

    (1) Change 'Work' to 'Activity' for the superclass of usage counters
        - the word 'activity' appears only _once_ in the IEEE boilerplate
          in the current document

    (2) Change 'Job' class of usage counters to 'Work'
        - this will let us use the term 'Work' with the appropriate
          plain English meaning

    These changes would allow the class 'Work' to be the summary class.

    NOTE - Any replacement of the class 'Job' requires a careful hand-edit,
    because the term 'Job' is already being used with the conventional
    printing meaning in dozens of places in the current document.

    I urge that we do NOT change the class 'Media Used'. It's clear and
    correct usage (from ISO DPA forward through all subsequent specs).

    Separately, remove the 'Media Used' class of usage counters from
    dotted lines superclass of 'Activity' (formerly 'Work') usage counters
    in Figure 4. It's erroneous, because 'Media Used' usage counters are
    NOT indexed or qualified by 'Datastream', 'Waste', etc.

    There are several places in the current spec where it's erroneously
    stated that 'Media Used' class is part of the (former) superclass
    'Work' (for example on page 7 in the Introduction).

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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