Subject: Re: Electronic Standards Delivery Issue
From: Alex Zamfirescu (hxml@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 13:01:19 PDT
Paul:
As you might know IEEE 1076.3 require a soft
distribution of the packages.
The plan is to re-affirm the standard in 2003 and
work in sync with all other affected by numerics
to bring a viable solution that will also include
variable precision floating point types.
The fact that users have to license the packages from
the IEEE leads us to thinking about delivering in the future
only a mathematical description of the functionality in the
standard, and have "certified compliant implementations" available
for free on the web. This might be more complicated for
the standard developers (the working groups) but we
might need to go that long path to make sure that adoption is
not stalled by the strong will of the Institute to make
money at any price. This is a topic that we need to
discuss at the "Numerics Summit" with all groups involved
or touched by numerics (including 1076, analog, math
logic values, Verilog, System Verilog, Synth, possibly
System C, and why not people bringing in the "logic_arith"
perspective).
Best regards,
Alex Z
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul J. Menchini" <mench@mench.com>
To: <stds-dasc@dasc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:31 AM
Subject: Electronic Standards Delivery Issue
> Ladies and Gentlemen of the DASC,
>
> It has come to my attention that there may be a problem with the IEEE's
> delivery of certain DASC standards (and possibly other, non-DASC
> standards) in electronic form.
>
> Certain standards (e.g., 1076.2 and, I believe, 1076.3) have computer
> files included as part of the standard. When any of these standards is
> delivered as a physical copy, either a floppy or a CD (containing the
> computer files) is inserted in the book containing the textual portion
> of the standard.
>
> One DASC member has reported to me that he obtained 1076.2
> electronically (specifically, as a PDF file) and the delivery did not
> include the computer files. This report is what triggered my
> investigation.
>
> Has anybody else experienced this problem? If so, I'd like to know as
> I'm now working with the pubs people at IEEE Standards to resolve this
> issue. They have confirmed to me that the computer files should be
> delivered as part of the electronic distribution. They've asked me to
> identify which standards might be affected by this problem, which
> prompts this email. And, I've asked them what to do when this delivery
> doesn't take place, and hope to soon hear.
>
> So, I'd like to know:
>
> * (of anybody) If you've ordered an electronic copy of an IEEE standard
> that has computer files as part of the standard and did not receive
> those computer files. If so, please let me know the standard number
> and, if possible, when you ordered the standard and how.
>
> * (of WG Chairs) If your group's standard includes computer files,
> please let me know its PAR number so that I can have the pubs people
> double-check its complete electronic delivery.
>
> Also, WG and SG Chairs, please distribute this email to your mailing
> lists so that people who are affected by this issue but are not on the
> current DASC mailing list will be notified. I apologize in advance for
> all those who receive multiple copies of this email.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Paul Menchini
> DASC Chair
>
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