RE: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999

[Jason Zions <yyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This discussion is a perfect answer to the question of why the revision
project should not invent.

The charter for the Austin Group project is to merge what already has been
approved into a single, coherent, common document. Doing anything else is
out of scope, *and should remain so*.

If someone thinks #! should be standardized, said person is more than
welcome to submit a PAR for an IEEE amendment to the new revised standard,
or to start a project within SC22/WG15, or convince OgTGbase to work on it.
Those are the appropriate arenas for new work; the Austin Group revision
project is wholly inappropriate.

"#!" is a rat's nest of tangled requirements and implementation differences.
It will take a project of significant effort and elapsed time to develop a
spec which is acceptable to all parties. Resources of the Austin Group
should not be wasted on that effort.

Jason Zions