[SCL] Continuation

[Harry Delugach]

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>  3. Nancy is an official coeditor of the ISO 11179 Metadata
>     standard, and she very much wants to get Common Logic
>     written in as an official standard for representing
>     metadata.  But she needs to get an official companion
>     project on CL supported by ISO.

My understanding is that the CL work was approved as a new work item 
for ISO TC1/SC32/WG2.

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>  4. The ISO group in January was very supportive of the
>     proposal I presented, but they have been disappointed
>     that nobody has stepped forward to be the official ISO
>     editor of the CL document.  In January, we discussed
>     the possibility that you (Chris) might join INCITS T2
>     in order to be an official member of the US TAG to the
>     ISO committee.  But so far, that has not happened.
>
>  5. Nancy said that she would be willing to guide the CL
>     standard through ISO, but for political reasons, it would
>     be better to have someone with an email domain other
>     than nsa.gov to be the official editor.  Harry Delugach,
>     who has been participating in the ICCS conferences from
>     the beginning (and who will host the next one in 2004),
>     volunteered to join INCITS T2 and to be the titular
>     editor of the ISO version of the CL standard (and he
>     would be more than happy to defer to you, if you would
>     care to join).  But in any case, Harry could be the
>     poster child for the ISO version, if nobody else steps
>     forward.  The technical material of the ISO version
>     should be identical to the version you are editing,
>     and the only difference would be the cover sheet and
>     introductory boilerplate.

I am willing to serve as "poster child" and even do some of the work! 
Obviously I will want to get up to speed on the stuff that many of the 
SUO and SCL groups are working on.

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>  6. The next ISO meeting will be in Melbourne, Australia,
>     in October.  Nancy is planning to go, and she would like
>     to present a draft of the CL standard in a form that
>     will convince the ISO committee that progress is being
>     made.  It is not clear whether Harry will get the funding
>     to go, but Nancy would also like to say that there is
>     an official editor for the project, who is a member of
>     INCITS T2 -- and that could be Harry.
>

As it turns out, I have found some funding and will be attending the 
ISO WG2 meeting in Melbourne. For now I suggest that I be proposed as 
the official editor. I should warn everyone that I take "editor" 
literally; it's probably not a good idea for me to be the "author" as 
well.

Harry