Keith,
Any news yet on the BoF date and time? It will help people on the list (and
others I am urging to show) come to the session if we can plan it.
A motley bunch of people I have spoken to say it would be nice to do it
later in the week.
See you soon,
Bill
At 10:09 AM 11/24/98 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
>> > hmmm... one sure-fire way for a working group to get into trouble is
>> > for it to try to document current practice at the same time it's trying
>> > to define what should be the practice. people in the group tend to
>> > get the two confused and the result is usually neither an improvement
>> > over the current practice, nor an accurate description of current
practice,
>>
>> Which is why documenting current practice is separated from the
development
>> work in the milestones :-)
>
>we've done that in a couple of other groups. what happened in those cases
>was that it took a long time (> 1 year) to document current practice,
>and everyone else in the group lost interest.
>
>> One reason to document current practice is to get terminology agreement.
Too
>> much confusion is currently due to lack of "same language".
>
>agreed entirely. I just think that the "document current practice" part
>needs to be accomplished very quickly.
>
>Keith
>
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