This is a copy of a posting to news.announce.newgroups and news.groups, all
discussion (that noted by Usenet anyway) should take place on news.groups.
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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group comp.std.cli
unmoderated group comp.std.csharp
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of
comp.std.cli and comp.std.csharp. This is not
a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural
details are below.
Newsgroup lines:
comp.std.cli Discussions on the ECMA/ISO Common Language
Infrastructure Standard
comp.std.csharp Discussions on the ECMA/ISO C# Standard
RATIONALE: all groups
There are no newsgroups to discuss the ECMA/ISO Standards for C# and the
Common
Language Infrastructure (CLI). There are multiple implementations of these
standards; including
the Microsoft product, Mono, Rotor and DotGNU; and a forum for the
discussion of the
Standards and possible future directions would be of benefit to the
community. The
ECMA Technical Groups for C# and the CLI are proposing these two newsgroups
and
will monitor the postings.
CHARTER: comp.std.csharp
The purpose of this newsgroup shall be to establish and maintain a forum for
the open discussion of issues related to the ECMA/ISO C# Standard.
Topics may include but are not limted to matters such as the following:
-Meaning of the Standard
-Impementation of the Standard
-Possible errors/omissions in the Standard
-Possible future directions of the Standard
END CHARTER.
CHARTER: comp.std.cli
The purpose of this newsgroup shall be to establish and maintain a forum for
the open discussion of issues related to the ECMA/ISO CLI Standard.
Topics may include but are not limted to matters such as the following:
-Meaning of the Standard
-Impementation of the Standard
-Issues arising from implementing the Standard on different hosts
-Possible errors/omissions in the Standard
-Possible future directions of the Standard
END CHARTER.
CHARTER: all groups
ECMA and ISO have formal procedures for input to, and reporting errors in,
Standards.
This group will in no way replace those procedures. The group is intended
as a
forum for the community. However the ECMA Technical Group for the Standard
will
monitor and take note of discussions on the group.
END CHARTER.
PROCEDURE:
This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase
of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups
should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue
for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this
proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For
Votes (CFV) will be posted by a neutral vote taker. Please do not
attempt to vote until this happens.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation
guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How
to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal". Please refer to these
documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any
questions about the process.
DISTRIBUTION:
This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups
and the following mailing list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (linguistic discussion of Tolkien languages)
Subcribe via: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Proponent: Nigel Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (on behalf of ECMA
TC39 TG2&3)
Proponent: Rex Jaeschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (on behalf of ECMA TC39 TG2&3)
