In his last message, Dave outlined our current standing and listed some goals for accomplishment in the next several months. Given that we're in transition, I'd like the phone conversation on Monday to offer some opportunity to discuss Dave's outline and any other administrative concerns members of the Review Board may have. I've gotten acceptance of a plan to serve both the public and private portions of our Web archives from the AMS. More on that as information becomes available. I assume that we can continue to use the W3 address for email correspondence. In addition to formal admission of W3C nominees to this Board, I'm also inclined myself to converse offline with a number of other parties with whom I have some acquaintance: Chris Rowley, a mathematician and TeX colleague Eric van Herwijnen, one of the architects of the ISO 12083 standard Dave Cohen and Steve DeRose, employees at EBT here in Providence Richard Fateman, of the Berkeley CS Department, with whom I corresponded briefly after the Champaign meeting Robert Sutor, collaborator in the IBM Axiom and Techexplorer efforts Dennis Arnon, former employee at Xerox PARC who's had a long-standing interest in markup of mathematics If anyone has objection, would issue caution regarding such discussion, or would like to add other people to the list of at-a-distance advisees, do let me know. Beyond matters of administration, I intend to review comments on the mail list and develop some topics for which there may remain question. Ka-Ping's comments are among those. We've been looking forward to preliminary implementations of code rendering Bruce's proposal in order to concretize and further focus discussion. Robert has brought several issues forward, and other Board members will also be able to do so after Bruce has finished his Mathematica renderer, perhaps around the end of next month. In the interim, we can continue to discuss some of the broader issues of the language design. If anyone has suggestions on ways in which I can facilitate matters by providing concrete examples or otherwise focusing discussion, please send those suggestions to me. Or if you have broad areas of concern and haven't yet focused the concerns sufficiently for broaching them in the discussion, I'll help where I can. It generally helps our discussion to have brought up a topic in written form ahead of time so that Board members can react with some consideration. I'm amenable to posing topics or helping to give framework for discussion. We have a number of levels on which discussion should proceed, and I take my role as chair as being that of facilitator, organizer, and focuser, not of Master Controller. -RonReceived on Saturday, 29 June 1996 11:14:59 UTC
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