From: McMillan, Kate
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2000 2:55 PM
To: 'NCITS TC/TG/SG Chairs'; 'NCITS members'
Subject: Call for Participants - Ad Hoc Group to revise the NCITS Annual Report Format
IT/00-0772
Call for Participants - Ad Hoc Group to revise the NCITS Annual Report Format
NCITS is initiating an ad hoc committee to deal with two concerns about the annual reports required of each NCITS Technical
Committee:
The reports require too much effort to write
The reports require too much effort to read.
The objective of the ad hoc committee is to revise the SD-10 (NCITS Subgroup Annual Report Format) by developing a new report
format that provides the NCITS Consensus Body with the necessary information to manage the technical work of standardization
without imposing an undue burden on the Subgroup officers. NCITS members will also benefit from the revision by being presented a
short, focused report that highlights the important issues facing the Subgroup without being surrounded by many pages of data. (Many
TC Annual Reports exceed 50 pages.)
The decision to convene an ad hoc committee was made after the NCITS Policy and Procedures Committee reported that it had
considered the issues related to revising the SD-10, and felt that broad participation was needed. Some of the areas of interest that were suggested are:
- Major workload changes
- Membership changes (big increases or decreases expected?)
- Relevance of projects to emerging technology
- Distribution of interest in a project (a few people? all members?)
- Related standards groups (competing, collaborating)
- Diagram of where the technology fits
We expect that the ad hoc committee should be able to conduct most of its work by e-mail and possibly an occasional teleconference. We are hoping for participation from the NCITS Consensus Body, the customers of the report, as well as from the TC Chairs, who prepare the reports. Participants should be willing to accept reviewing and writing assignments; non-participants will be given the opportunity to comment on the resulting draft once it is finished, but we need active participants in order to produce a good product.
We expect to need participants who can:
- Discuss the general content of the report -- what should be included?
- Prepare an outline for the report
- Help draft text for the revised NCITS/SD-10 to describe the report format
- Prepare sample reports based on the revised format
- To assess the workload involved in preparing the report
- To serve as prototypes to assess whether the shorter report satisfies members' needs
- To serve as samples to be published with SD-10 so other TC Chairs know what is expected.
If you would like to participate, please advise Kate McMillan of your interest.
Kenneth M. Zemrowski
TRW Systems & Information Technology Group
FAA SETA Project m/s WDC9/7N158
1 Federal Systems Park Drive
Fairfax VA 22033-4404
Tel: +1 202.651.2298 Fax: +1 202.484.4460
Kathleen M. McMillan, Senior Director
Standards Operations, ITIC
1250 Eye St NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005
kmcmillan@itic.org - 202.626.5742