Dear all,
I have not been able to attend many TC6 meetings and I came recently to the group, so my vision can be very naive on the subject.
I have been reading the documents and trying to build a picture of the conflict from the outside, having heard some discussions also on previous meetings. What seems to be the base of all the discussion is the current situation/evaluation of IFIP. I feel that TC6 shares a negative evaluation of IFIP today, particularly in front of its direct "brothers" as ACM and IEEE. This evaluation, is it shared by the rest of the TCs? Is it shared by the rest of IFIP?
From the "new IFIP" document, it is not clear... Eventhough our position
PPT presentation was "tough", I really think that it didn't deserve to be called "unacademic"! We could have say the same in front of the "new IFIP" document...
What I would expect from a strategic document is an initial analysis of the current situation, and the "reason to be" of an organization such as IFIP in front of what exists today in ICT around the world.
If TC6 wants to work towards a new IFIP, maybe we should draft such a document. If we lost hope, maybe it is time to put our efforts on a better cause...
-- Jo
Dear Dipak and all others,
Could you please send me the document you sent to Basie?
With best regards Dipak
Here is the document. I believed that I had sent it to the delegates, too. The documents consists of the pages produced by Guy L. and Harry P. at the occasion of the meeting - in a slightly "moderated" form.
Would you please check and give comments by comparing with the "New IFIP" document which you received some time ago (it is also part of the meeting documents of Coimbra). We will have to save the honour of TC6. We have been denoted as "unacademic and as unscientific".
Best regards Otto _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6