Dear TC6 members,
I forward you the mail from Leon Strous (TC11 chairman) on the publications issue.
Please do not get confused with the different mails circulating on publications.
This mail is the result of the work that the TC chairs had agreed to do after the Council meeting in Bilbao. This is the final document, whose draft version we have analysed in Budapest.
The mail from Roger Johnson, which I circulated to you a few days ago is orthogonal to this one. Up to the moment I have only had feed back to that mail from TC6 members. The attached message from Leon does not make any reference to that mail and proceeds as had been agreed in Bilbao.
I will investigate the situation and keep you informed.
Best regards
Augusto
-----Original Message----- From: Leon + Pattry Strous [mailto:strous@iaehv.nl] Sent: sexta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2003 23:34 To: Brunnstein, Klaus; Ralston, Prins; Solms, Basie von; Johnson, Roger Cc: laprie@laas.fr; Reis, Ricardo; Khakhar, Dipak; wangqs@cidc.com.cn; Wibe, Jan (chair TC-3); Roode, Dewald (chair TC-8); Casaca, Augusto (chair TC-6); Olling, Gustav (chair TC-5); Ito, Takayasu (chair TC-1); Lasiecka, Irena (chair TC-7); Berleur, Jacques (chair TC-9); Rammig, Franz (chair TC-10); Neumann, Bernd (chair TC-12); Karat, John (chair TC-13); Meersman, R. (vice-chair TC-2) Subject: Re: IFIP Publications issue
Dear Roger, Prins, Basie and Klaus,
we have received comments from most of the TC-chairs and some EB members. Please find attached the adjusted requirements document (version 30-5) where I have tried to accomodate all comments. This list could be the input for the Request for Proposals. According to our time plan, the next step is that the IFIP President appoints the negotiating sub-committee who will start the tender process. I was asked to bring forward the wish not to limit the tender process to only a few well-known publishers but to start an open tender process. My suggestion in this respect is to compose a long-list of possible candidates who will be approached with the question whether they would be interested in bidding. The requirements document could be used to inform those candidates about what we are looking for. The list of interested parties will probably a short-list.
Concerning the IFIP Publications Policy document, I have received only one comment. It was suggested to replace "IT" by "Information Science and Technology". I have no problem with that but have not changed the document yet. Please advise how to proceed in order to finalize / formalize this document.
kind regards, Leon
Rest of the time line: May 31 Agreed set of requirements ready / President appoints negotiating
sub-committee / Tender list
generated June 30 Notice of non-renewal of contract sent to current publisher July 1 Issue Invitation to Tender Sept 30 Close of bids Oct 31 Evaluation of bids complete / Recommendation for selection sent
to EB
Dec 31 IFIP signs new contract