Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!longway!std-unix From: jsh@ico.isc.com (Jeffrey S. Haemer) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Standards Update, Minneapolis, Overview Message-ID: <371@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 05:01:31 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: Jeffrey S. HaemerLines: 42 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) [ There are two sets of USENIX Standards Watchdog reports that have not yet been posted. This article begins the set from the April 1989 meeting in Minneapolis. The ones from the July 1989 meeting in San Jose will follow later. -mod ] From: Jeffrey S. Haemer >From April to July of this year there was no report editor for the USENIX watchdog committee reports. Shane McCarron, who did a spectacular job editing the first several sets of reports, had been called away to bigger (though not better :-) things. For months, volunteers' reports on various aspects of the April meeting lay on an electronic shelf. In July, John Quarterman somehow got me to volunteer to do report editing. Since then, I've worked both to clear out the backlog and to persuade volunteers to generate new reports, despite the fact that their old ones haven't even been posted yet. To get things rolling again, I've chosen to sidestep prior practice, and just provide edited versions of the reports I have. If you haven't been following these reports, the difference is that Shane fused the watchdog reports, his observations, and his opinions into strong, occasionally controversial editorials. In these postings, my biases will leak through, but due to the amount of catching-up I need to do, I've mostly edited, not editorialized. Here's what this means. Each edited report is tagged with the name and e-mail address of the original report author. If you want elaboration on a statement of fact, please contact the watchdog; if you think the facts are presented in a light that lead the reader to the wrong conclusion, your argument's probably with me. Jeffrey S. Haemer Report Editor jsh@ico.isc.com Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 2