Improtant! IEEE 1364-2001 reprint

From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 23:58:15 PDT

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    Events have transpired to the point that we have new options before us
    in terms of the unfortunate error in the publishing of 1364-2001,
    thanks in a large part to the actions of Dennis Brophy. [Thanks
    Dennis!]

    The IEEE is open to reprinting a corrected 1364-2001, and sending it
    free of change to all parties that received the defective copies.

    To educate the readers, after 1364-2001 Draft 6 was approved by the
    balloting group, the IEEE edited the document, and provided a PDF of
    this to the 1364 WG. (Let us call this 1364-2001A) We reviewed this
    PDF, pointed out numerous errors (code examples had the first two
    characters cut off; the ' and the ` characters were printed in a font
    that had no character for these, and hence were invisible; the index
    was deleted; the table of contents was reduced to just one level, et
    cetera).

    The IEEE editors fixed the problems we pointed out; made a new PDF (we
    shall call this 1364-2001B), which was sent to the 1364 WG; we
    approved these changes; everyone was happy, another job well done by
    all concerned.

    Then 3 months later, when printed versions were finally available from
    the IEEE, we discovered our abject horror, that the printed manual,
    and the PDFs available from the download site were of THE ORIGINAL
    ERRONEOUS version (1364-2001A)!

    Before us are three options:

      1) Print 1364-2001 Draft 6 (that which was approved by the Ballot
      committee) and send that to everyone.

      -> Everyone gets precisely what was balloted.

      2) Print that which we call 1364-2001B, which is the PDF that
      includes IEEE edits, as well as our corrections we submitted.

      -> we get the benefit of IEEE changes, without (all of the)
      negatives.

      3) Create a 1364-2001C that is based on 1364-2001B but with the non
      intended deviances from the Draft 6 restored (such as the Index).

      -> we get the benefit of IEEE changes, with none of negatives. ->
      This takes non zero time for us to create [ Not as bad as one might
      think as the errata task force has indentified all of these ].

    Of course as we all know we can not change anything substantative from
    the balloted version without another ballot. Also some of the changes
    that IEEE did were needed to make the document in conformance with the
    then current publishing standard (Sections were renamed to Clauses).

    What I need from everyone by

    >>>> MONDAY April 14th at 5pm Pacific <<<<

    is your vote:

    Tell me whether you believe we should ask IEEE to do

    [ ] 1 Print Draft 6
    [ ] 2 Print 1364-2001B
    [ ] 3 Print 1364-2001C (after we create it) 

    --
Michael McNamara
1364-2001 Working Group Chair
speaking for my cat

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