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Report of ACM's technical standards committee

Report of ACM's technical standards committee Report of ACM ™s Technical Standards Committee Jim Moore THE MITRE CORP., MCLEAN, VA. Editor ™s note: This report will appear in StandardView on a regular basis. ACM ™s Technical Standards Committee looks at standardization and its implications for their membership. While I do not agree with all of their positions, the TSC represents a formidable force in standardization, and is a forum that every member can and should use to voice an opinion about what is happening in standardization. C.C. Report of the Meeting of the ACM Technical Standards Committee, 25 February 1995, Nashville, Tennessee. Reported by Jim Moore, Secretary. Adopting œPublicly Available Specifications  In recent months, formal standards development organizations have begun reacting to criticism that their procedures are too slow to suit the rapid evolution of the information technology industry. Furthermore, there have been recent instances where the marketplace has shown a preference for de facto standards like those of Internet rather than œformal  standards such as Open Systems Interconnect. In response to these events, the Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) of ISO-IEC (International Organization for Standardization, International Electrotechnical Commission) has adopted new procedures for the processing of Publicly Available Specifications (PAS). These http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png StandardView Association for Computing Machinery

Report of ACM's technical standards committee

Moore, Jim
StandardView , Volume 3 (2) – Jun 1, 1995
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 1995 by ACM Inc.
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1067-9936
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10.1145/208164.208169
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Report of ACM ™s Technical Standards Committee Jim Moore THE MITRE CORP., MCLEAN, VA. Editor ™s note: This report will appear in StandardView on a regular basis. ACM ™s Technical Standards Committee looks at standardization and its implications for their membership. While I do not agree with all of their positions, the TSC represents a formidable force in standardization, and is a forum that every member can and should use to voice an opinion about what is happening in standardization. C.C. Report of the Meeting of the ACM Technical Standards Committee, 25 February 1995, Nashville, Tennessee. Reported by Jim Moore, Secretary. Adopting œPublicly Available Specifications  In recent months, formal standards development organizations have begun reacting to criticism that their procedures are too slow to suit the rapid evolution of the information technology industry. Furthermore, there have been recent instances where the marketplace has shown a preference for de facto standards like those of Internet rather than œformal  standards such as Open Systems Interconnect. In response to these events, the Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) of ISO-IEC (International Organization for Standardization, International Electrotechnical Commission) has adopted new procedures for the processing of Publicly Available Specifications (PAS). These

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Published: Jun 1, 1995

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