Re: [vhdl-200x] 1076 & Entity balloting

From: Evan Lavelle <anti.spam1@dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 09:32:26 PDT

Bailey, Stephen wrote:

> 2. The real work happens with a relatively small number of
individuals. This is where the greatest influence on the standard
occurs. Therefore individual participation and voting at this level
retains the majority of the influence that individuals have in the
overall process. The addition of organizational entity approval of the
sub-group output and guidance in the scope/organization of the
sub-groups helps to ensure that the sub-groups generate what the
organizations believe is needed in the market.

There does seem to be a general perception here that this is viable - in
other words, you get the individual experts to do the hard work, even
though they don't have a vote, and the entities are simply a benign
influence that enables this in some way.

I don't personally think that this can work. We actually have at least
one historical example where this was tried, and that was the FVTC
within Accellera. The FVTC did the hard work but, as it turned out, the
entities simply ignored the work and did what they wanted anyway.

Evan Lavelle
Received on Wed Jun 23 09:32:34 2004

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