[802SEC] RE: P&P problem: draft numbering
Roger,
I have already noted inconsistencies with Procedure 7 and the numbering followed by various WG within 802. I will add Yvette's comment to this issue as well. In my mind, procedure 7 is clearly something which should be relegated to the Chair's Guideline or pushed down to the WG. But, again it will be a while till we get to it. I'm not sure of the relative positioning of the IEEE Style manual and our P&P. And apparently the requirement not to use the year is only a recommendation anyway. Clearly Procedure 7 is not being enforced. So perhaps it is okay for us to simply ignore our P&P and honor Yvette's request. Comments?
Another possibility for the near term (which would not impact my P&P reorg) would be to simply delete procedure 7 and add the content to the Chair's Guide. Don't know how palatable this is to everyone.
Mat
Matthew Sherman, PhD
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From: Roger B. Marks [mailto:r.b.marks@ieee.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:23 PM
To: Sherman, Matthew J. (US SSA)
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Subject: P&P problem: draft numbering
Mat,
Here is a P&P problem that arose in today's 802 Task Force meeting.
Procedure 7 specifies the format of draft numbering. It specifically
requires that drafts include "-YEAR" at the end of the number. (It
specifies a two-digit year, but I think that most of us have
graduated to four-digit years).
At today's meeting, Yvette Ho Sang noted that, according to the Style
Manual, the year should not be included in the draft designation. As
far as I can tell, this is a recommendation, not a requirement, but
Yvette said that it's inappropriate to include the year.
So, we need to spruce up this part of the P&P. We could, at the same
time, update the entire Procedure, but this might be more troublesome.
By the way, Yvette would like drafts to follow the recommendations in
the Style Manual's Annex B ("Example draft standard"). Based on
recent discussions I had with Angela, I have been strongly
encouraging the 802.16 to adopt the recommendations there, even the
non-mandatory ones that we have sometimes ignored.
Roger