Re: One base SOI ID? Humm

[Alex Alten <Alten@attbi.com>]

It sounds like the requirements were never really spec'd out.
Why not specify the top 10 requirements, and then run a test/
runoff/review of the two proposals.  The one that meets the 10
requirements the best should be the winner.

- Alex

At 09:08 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, Charlie_Kaufman@notesdev.ibm.com wrote:
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>> Barbara just said that if more of this community were physically here at
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>> in Yokohama, she would take a humm poll about whether to move forward
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>> one SOI ID, one bail of hay.
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>> Here we go...
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>> "hum via email if you agree with the two ID authors coming back to the
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>> with one ID for us to move forward discussing."
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>> Here's mine:    HMMMMM!!!
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>If only life were so simple. Everyone agrees that there should be one ID.
>The donkey knows he wants hay. The donkey telling the hay to rearrange
>itself into one bail is unlikely to work. There aren't two authors. IVEv2
>has
>5 coauthors and JFK has 7. It was a challenge getting them to compromise
>among themselves. While over time, the two groups have moved towards
>one another, they are not going to reach agreement without more
>strong-arming than hums.
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>One way to resolve this is for the working group to declare a winner.
>Another way (the Soloman approach) is to tell both groups that both
>proposals will be abandoned unless one group withdraws. I can't
>predict the outcome, but I don't recommend it.
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>It's possible that a threat that the working group will declare
>a winner on some date (August 31st?) if consensus is not reached
>before that will inspire the groups to compromise (based on what
>they think their respective chances are of winning... like a plea
>bargain that both sides prefer to rolling the dice even if neither
>believes it is 'fair').
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>I propose that a good first step would be for each camp to
>choose a negotiator and commit (perhaps with reservations)
>to live with an agreement they reach. Haggling by email is
>hard.
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>          --Charlie Kaufman
>         (ckaufman@notesdev.ibm.com)
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Alex Alten
Alten@ATTBI.com