Re: Info on interpretations and explanations

Peter,
Thanks for taking the trouble to look this up.
I agree that following the official procedures for interpretations and
explanations would not be a good use of very limited resources.

For example, I looked up the  on-line interpretation document for 754,
the floating point standard. (The question posed is "why is number/zero
signed infinity, instead of nan?). We have resolved more issues that lie in
the entire on-line IEEE data base! So let's not go there. It would be a lot
more work for little real gain.

Chuck Swart


Peter Ashenden wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I've followed up on the IEEE-SA procedures for interpretations and
>explanations.
>
>The IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual describes the process:
>http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect5.html#5.9.
>
>Further information on interpretations:
>http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/interp/index.html.
>
>It would appear that, while the ISAC process is effectively generating
>interpretations and explanations, the source of requests is not via the SA
>Secretary or the Sponsor (the DASC). Moreover, the interpretations and
>explanations aren't being published as required, largely because incoming
>requests aren't tracked through the SA.
>
>The question is whether we should revise our process to receive requests and
>publish responses as specified in the above-cited documents, or whether we
>should continue with our less-formal process.  My concern is that, were we
>to do the former, that would be a signficant administrative burden and would
>not add any significant value to our audience.  Making our deliberations
>more accessible, for example, through the searchable tracking system we're
>planning with Bugzilla, would be a better use of our resources.
>
>Comments?
>
>Cheers,
>
>PA
>
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