jdm@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James D Mooney) (07/18/89)
This is a CALL FOR DISCUSSION for creation of a newsgroup to discuss issues relating to the TRON project. The proposed name for the group is "comp.std.tron." Since my initial request about 30 days ago, over 60 news articles related to TRON have been posted. This seems to indicate an interest in discussing this topic. TRON issues bear on several topics that have existing newsgroups, including networks, architecture, operating systems, realtime systems, and standards. However, there is no group suitable for a continuing discussion of TRON as a unified topic. TRON is somewhat hard to classify, but its essential goal is to produce a collection of standards. Thus the proposed group is a subgroup of "comp.std." I propose that the new group be UNMODERATED. It's suggested charter would include: - Technical discussion of the various TRON subprojects (BTRON, ITRON, CTRON, TRON CPU, etc.) - Issues concerning TRON as a set of standards, and its relation with other standards - Implications of the TRON project as a whole or in part, including economic, cultural, political, etc. Other related topics could be added to this list. However, this should not be the place for extended flames about Japanese projects vs. work in other countries. This discussion should take place in news.groups *ONLY*. It will continue until Monday, August 14th. On that date a Call for Votes will be posted. Jim Mooney Dept. of Stat. & Computer Science (304) 293-3607 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 INTERNET: jdm@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu