Gentle persons:
In reviewing the 2.5 documentation I came to realize that neither the
docs nor the web/wiki site gives proper attribution to foundational
documents from NIST, although there are tips of the hat to NIST as the
originator of the EMC project and there are brief mentions of "the NIST
document" etc. After all, I can draw a straight line from some parts of
NIST documents to sections of the current EMC2 documentation.
I would think as a minimum we would have an entry for
1) the last paper by Tom Kramer, et al., on the RS274NGC Interpreter,
which is a de facto public-domain definition of RS274NGC and has great
artwork.
The formal reference:
Kramer, Thomas R.; Proctor, Frederick M.; Messina, E.; The NIST RS274NGC
Interpreter - Version 3; NISTIR 6556; National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; August 2000.
As of today, it can be found at
http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/documents/kramer/RS274NGC_3.pdf
http://code.google.com/p/rs274ngc/downloads/detail?name=RS274NGC_3.pdf
2) a description of NML, perhaps drawing from the list at
http://http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/rcslib/index.html. I don't
know which is the right choice. It wouldn't hurt to include something
about RCS and the distributed manufacturing environment that was the
goal of all this work, given our RCSLIB heritage.
Since these works are not subject to copyright, we could even post
copies directly on our site (with proper citation or course) for the
convenience of the EMC2 community.
And, yes, I'm a retired NIST guy, but not from the manufacturing
technology program, who likes to see its good works acknowledged properly.
Regards,
Kent
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