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Initial Comments

    16-Jun-93 07:35:09
Sb: #50645-Initial Comments
Fm: Rich Bowers/OPA 71333,1114
To: Neil R. Shapiro 71161,3114
Neil: Thanks for the critique. We are in fact preparing to make a couple of the changes you suggest. Starting the first of July there will be a Titles section and a new Networking section. And maybe a surprise or two if we can work it out. Your files are in CDROM Production because these subjects are of the greatest interest to producers. I'll have to look for Peter's file and move it there as well. I'd be happy to institute a Standards section if 1) we can find someone to serve as a section leader, who has the knowledge or at least the interest to learn about related standards and seek out documents to upload, and 2) if we can find a body of docs that are uploadable. Note that we have a late version of High Sierra, but 9660 is copyrighted and controlled. Most final documents are. The CDCINC doc from SIGCAT is great and I'd love to have more. But I don't know what kind of impact we could have without access to JPEG, MPEG, et al. Do you know some sources? SGML Open/GCA? HyTime? Even a file with a decent directory to help people locate the sources of such documents would be good, but I have tried twice now over the last couple of years to assemble such a doc with no luck. Would you be willing to participate on a regular basis? If you are free tonight, we have a regularly scheduled conference. Maybe I can get John Nairn to attend as well, and we could discuss some mechanics. Thanks again, and I lok forward to hearing from you! Best – Rich