Re: SPF as basis for combined proposal

Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> wrote:
> What concerns me here is the fact that all of the individual proposals 
> are still being updated separatly. When do we reach the stage where one 
> single proposal can be made and updated?

  My hope was to create a unified proposal by selecting bits & pieces
of common elements from the various drafts.  I've done some work on
creating an outline of such a document, and should do more.

  The methodso far appears to be editing individual documents, in the
hope that they will one day be similar.  I don't think that this
method will work.  I believe that we need a clear statement of the
problem we're trying to solve.  I believe we need a clear statement of
the scope of the solution.  We need a clear statement of the
side-effects, impact, and cost of a solution.

  Once we have that, we will have an obvious outline for a combined
document.  I have my start at those statements on my web page:

	http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/asrg-rmx/proposal.html

  I'll update it over the next few days, with more of an outline.

  Alan DeKok.