Dear Otto,
I'll try my best to review this, but let me say that only 8 days to let us review this document and comment on it, when it is so important, is not enough.
For example, I am away amost all the time this week and busy with lots of things.
Do they really want our comments? If so, they should give us a bit more time. Of course if they don't want our comments and want to expedite a decision, this is the right way to proceed. I always noted that they let things sleep for months (or years) and then suddently they need an answer within days.
We have a short group in TC6 headed by Harry Rudin. Perhaps would it be nice to have a short exchange of views within this group before replying anything.
Best regards, Guy
At 9:15 AM +0200 11/16/06, Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear all,
please study the open access proposal made by Springer SSBM and comment on it.
Best regards Otto
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To IFIP Publications Committee:
Attached is a proposal from SSBM for a method of addressing IFIP's wishes for an open access repository for electronic documents. I also have attached my initial analysis of this proposal.
The Publications Committee has been asked to review the proposal and to make a recommendation regarding the proposal to the IFIP Executive Board. Our recommendation should assess the strengths and weaknesses of the proposal. We should not try to say whether the proposal should be accepted or rejected until we have a clearer picture of the alternatives, although we could potentially say that it should be rejected if we find it unacceptable. We also could recommend further negotiation to improve parts of the proposal that we find objectionable.
Keep in mind that we have two possible alternatives at this time: the BCS proposal and providing in-house facilities to implement a version of the prototype that was done by Dipak. However, we do not have the level of analysis and detail that is provided in the SSBM proposal for the other two possibilities, although the BCS proposal is so straightforward that there may be no need for additional detail. A good way of proceeding at this point would be for us to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the SSBM proposal, keeping in mind the other two proposals (as well as the possibility of additional options) but not trying to do much comparison. If we can reach a decision on the viability of the SSBM proposal and its points that should be improved if possible, then that would be a very useful result to present to the EB.
Please study the SSBM proposal and send your comments and questions to the PC members. Please also include any comments on my analysis. It is my hope that my analysis can be used as the first draft of our report, adding our summary analysis and recommendation(s) at the end, but if it cannot be easily modified to reflect our opinion then we can create another document.
The EB will meet in December, but the agenda is essentially full and it is unlikely that they will have enough time to consider the proposal then. Klaus has requested that we send our recommendation as soon as possible, hopefully within a few weeks, so he can decide what further action is needed. So please try to send your comments to the group by November 24, and we can have a discussion of the proposal and the comments by email.
Joe
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