[SCL] Re: Getting a move on

[John F. Sowa]

Pat,

Of course, I'm in.  I've been in this project since I first
encouraged Genesereth & Fikes to come to a couple of standards
committee meetings about 10 years ago, and I'm not about to
quit now.

 > .... Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that ISO was the *cause*
 > of any delay. Perhaps I should have said, the existing CL
 > standardization initiative....

And by the way, the L8 committee has had the KIF-CG standards
effort as an "active" project on their books since 1998, when they
inherited it from the old T2 committee, which inherited it from
the old H4 committee, which started it around 1992.  So the time
is ripe to "get a move on".

 > Getting together is useful for head bonding but I really think that
 > most of the technical progress is done by email/telecon/web activity,
 > and that F2F time is better thought of as social than as technical.
 > The few pieces of real progress Ive seen made at F2F meetings have
 > always been in small break-out sessions where a subgroup is basically
 > under orders to come to a decision about some long-standing thorny
 > issue - ANY decision - before lunch, or by 3 o'clock, or whatever, and
 > then has to report back to the main group. The social pressure of
 > being in the hostile gaze of an audience of ones peers is often worth
 > the combined air fares. But such situations are rare; and particularly
 > among we cool-headed logicians, whose discussions are so calm and
 > rational as to seem anodyne to the layman.

Right.

John