"Proposed Business Plan" document posted as http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/wg4/archive/sc34-wg4-2011-0220.zip

[MURATA Makoto]

Wearing my JP hat,

In the WG4 archive, the source of the document is "Rex Jaeschke, Ecma
liaison".
Does this mean that Ecma endorsed this document?

Japan is unhappy with slow progress of font-related DRs.  Japan wonders why
the project editor argues against timely addressing them, and thinks
that the project
editor should be neutral.  Does Ecma also argue against timely addressing
font-related DRs?

Regards,
Makoto

2012/1/12 Rex Jaeschke <rex at rexjaeschke.com>:
> Prior to the Busan, KR, Face-to-Face (F2F) meeting, I proposed to Murata-san
> privately that WG4 have a detailed business plan. The primary reasons for
> this were to
>
> Force WG4 members to look at the “big picture” rather than to work on topics
> in a piecemeal fashion
> Be realistic about the resources needed and available
> Be able to share with the stakeholders outside WG4 information about where
> IS 29500 was headed
> Be willing to commit to a written plan that was made public, thereby
> (hopefully) making them think a lot more before committing, and with a
> bigger stake in the long-term success of the 29500 standardization process
>
> Murata-san bought into this idea and put it on the Busan agenda. At that
> meeting, we discussed it briefly and I reiterated the main points that I had
> argued privately with Murata-san.
>
> By then, he had set up a wiki on which he asked me to post my ideas. During
> the following months, I added a number of items and Murata-san made numerous
> edits. It soon became obvious to me that while a wiki might be useful for
> wordsmithing text in a specification, I don’t see it being the best way of
> dealing with higher-level proposals, such as a business plan. Specifically,
> I am really not interested in seeing detailed wording changes to my
> proposal, but rather, a discussion for/against the principles I raised in
> each point.
>
> So, I have re-published in N 0220 all the text I posted to the wiki last
> year in the hopes of stimulating a discussion of the merits of my points.
> Once we agree on those, I expect that any wording changes needed will easily
> follow.
>
> In separate mails, I’ll address Murata’s concerns about some of my
> proposals.
>
> Rex



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Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake

Makoto