From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,de271484cfbb52a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: General informations about ASIS Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:26:56 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <6a692bc8-5989-404c-8bfb-593f23c21070@w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.75.149.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1234733216 24600 127.0.0.1 (15 Feb 2009 21:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.75.149.115; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4615 Date: 2009-02-15T13:26:56-08:00 List-Id: On 15 f=E9v, 04:22, "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > Not yet. The plan is that the work on the standard will be finished at th= e > next ARG meeting (next week) and then it will start the standardization > process. Next week... that's may be why a little bird told be about to go back to ASIS documentation picking Will you make an announcement here ? > Most of the technical decisions for the revised ASIS were done months or > years ago and can be found on the ARG's website. The draft standard itsel= f, > unfortunately, is copyright ISO (as is the 1999 version) and thus cannot = be > provided except to people actively working on it. (The reason I'm here > tonight is to finish that draft and get it distributed before the meeting= .) Is it some work like the ones with =AB Ada 2005 Issues =BB ? (the discussion and submit of corrections to be made to the standard) > Well, it describes the use of the functions, and there are some examples = and > rationale. Most of that should never have been in the standard in the fir= st > place, it should have been made freely available -- but it is too late to > fix that. Ok, I see. I suppose that the tutorials available on the web cover the same area. So there is no real worry about it. > I can't answer that, because we're not sure. The group that did that > standard has long since disbanded, and as far as we can tell, they didn't > pay any attention to intellectual property/licensing/copyright issues. > Personally, I think they intended the specs to be public domain or someth= ing > like that, but it isn't clear that they took the needed steps to ensure t= hat > is actually true. You'd have to ask a lawyer if you need a definitive > opinion. Could you, please, if you allow me to made such a request to you and have a sufficient time for that, ask them a bout it ? > We've tried to address this by restructuring the standard, but whether th= at > really works is an open question. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Randy. Ok, I will try to figure looking for the news in the coming weeks Lots of thanks Randy