Re: The quest for tentative approval.

[Yves Epelboin <Yves.Epelboin@lmcp.jussieu.fr>]

It looks fine to me.

I am very impressed by the work whichj has been done and the clarity of
the explanations.

With best regards.

Robert Sweet a écrit :
> 
> It's time for action.
> 
> There has been some traffic recently among some of us about the prospects
> for further development of the imgCIF/CBF idea, put in tangible form on
> Herb Bernstein's web page:
> http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF/doc/cbf_definition_rev.html
> 
> It appears that the work we have all done on CBF and imgCIF is starting to
> bear fruit, and to be used in real software.  I'm easily persuaded that it
> is time to make what we have done more "official", and Herb and others
> clearly have the attention of the COMCIFS within the IUCr.  If we take the
> next step and ask for approval, others may start to employ it.  The huge
> advantage of this is the this test of fire will begin the process of
> refining the CBF and imgCIF definitions.  Therefore, unless there are
> strenuous objections from the readers of this bulletin board, in the next
> few days we will submit what we have done to COMCIFS for "tentative
> approval".
> 
> To quote from I. David Brown:
> 
>   "Tentative approval is the first stage towards the final approval that
> occurs when the community has had a chance to discover any obvious defects
> in the dictionary after, say, 12 - 18 months.  Thus tentative approval
> does not preclude changes being made in the dictionary later as a result
> of experience gained (this caveat appears in any tentatively approved
> dictionary) but it puts the draft on the official Comcifs dictionary list.
> It is the intent of tentative approval to give the draft official status,
> thus encouraging the writing of software.  I imagine that any changes
> needed before final approval could be made in a way that ensures upward
> compatibility, particularly if the software writers have already invested
> a lot of effort."
> 
> This seems to be a sensible way to go forward.  I thank Herb and Paul
> Ellis especially for the effort they have expended.  We await comments
> from this community.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Bob
> 
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