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Subject: Re: Fwd: CGM Profiles -- Input needed
Lofton, These should be retained as technical reports. Standards should be maintained only when used in the real world. Bruce Lofton Henderson wrote: > > CGM Open Members -- > > I have assumed the role of liaison to ISO SC24, the ISO home committee of > the CGM standard. This job was formerly held by John Gebhardt. > > I'd like to get opinions about the attached -- what do we feel about these > ISO profiles? For background, they were developed following a workshop in > the UK, which identified a small number of potentially useful standard > profiles of CGM. One aligned roughly with the ATA/CALS tradition, another > aligned roughly with PIP. In some sense, they were intended to be a family > of alternate model profiles, which had functional richness targeted at > certain typical application sectors (the real Model Profile is "maximally > rich for any reasonable profile"). > > They are, to my knowledge, not actually called out as a requirement by any > application community. > > One possibility, which is not mentioned and which I have not investigated > yet, would be to change their status to Technical Reports. Then they would > not be standards per se (as they are now -- ISP, International Standardized > Profile), but would continue to exist in ISO for reference purposes. > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > Lofton. > > >Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:53:05 -0400 > >From: jean stride <100434.3031@compuserve.com> > >Subject: CGM Profiles > >Sender: jean stride <100434.3031@compuserve.com> > >To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com> > >X-RCPT-TO: <lofton@rockynet.com> > > > >Hello, > > > >Do you remember being involved with the work led by > >Anne Mumford in the developing of CGM Profiles > >(ISO/IEC ISP 12071 Parts 1 - 4) developed in JTC 1-SGFS > > > >They are up for 5yr review and we need to make some recommendations > >on whether to confirm, withdraw or revise - can you help ?? > >Jean > > ******************* > Lofton Henderson > 1919 Fourteenth St., #604 > Boulder, CO 80302 > > Phone: 303-449-8728 > Email: lofton@rockynet.com > *******************
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