Re: Channel Access Protocol Specification

[Klemen Zagar <klemen.zagar@cosylab.com>]

Hello, everybody.

Lawrence Hoff wrote:
> It seems to me that any of us who are capable of, and interested
> in assisting in this effort must organize ourselves in a way that
> allows such questions to be raised, understanding to be achieved,
> and clarifications to be made to the document. In some cases,
> such clarifications might even result in necessary changes to
> *existing* implementations (e.g. to address situations not previously
> anticipated, such as out-of-order packets).
>
> Is COSYLab interested in setting up a Wiki or other
> collaborative environment so folks can pitch in and help out?

We have prepared a mailing list to which you can send any issues you might 
discover regarding the document. To subscribe, unsubscribe or view the 
list's archive, visit:

  http://lists.cosylab.com/wws/info/lists-ca-spec

Everybody is invited to subscribe and contribute to this mailing list!
(For convenience, the 'mail' icons in the specification now point at this 
mailing list.)

About the document improvement process:

1. The process is open: anyone can contribute his ideas, views, comments, 
... (the technical means to do so is the above mailing list)

2. The document is free: if anyone wishes to modify the document by 
volunteering to take responsibility for its maintenance in the future, 
Cosylab can give the sources for the document and instructions on how to 
produce the fancy HTML.

3. Cosylab will resolve any 'major or critical' issues reported before the 
12th of August 2005. This is when the warranty period on the contract with 
Steve Hunt (who funded this version of the specification) will expire. 
'Major or critical' issues are the reports where information in the 
document is incorrect.

4. Non-critical issues, such as

   - change of document's structure
   - expansion of document's scope (e.g., to behavior or version differences)

   will be processed when someone is interested enough to fund future work 
on the specification document (or takes over the document maintenance 
according to section 2).

5. The document status is 'draft' when it is still under preparation, and 
'released' when it has been reviewed and approved by Jeff Hill (performed 
in June for this version of the document) and Cosylab's quality assurance. 
The validation is performed against the document's scope. We prefer to do 
reviews when there are bunches of changes, and not every change individually.

Best regards,
  Klemen.

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