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Creating a Standards Team?

Posted by Cliff on from the drafting-that-all-important-benchmark dept.

bridgeland asks: "What is the best way to create a standards team? Who should be included? How should it be governed? I have been asked by a vendor Cokinetic Systems to start an independent standards body for their presentation layer description language I3ML. I am interested, but I don't want to repeat mistakes already made by others. Any relevant experience?"

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  1. We should standardize this... by MarvinMouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we should form a standards team to standardize what a standards team is.

    The first meeting will be held next week, but first we need to hold a pre-meeting to plan for that meeting.. oh yeah, and just to make sure the pre-meeting goes well, there is a pre-pre-meeting tommorow at the office.

    Hopefully this way, we can avoid the waste by standarizing what a standards team should be... But first we need to standarize what as standard team so our standards team isn't non-standardized.

    It's brilliant.

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    ~ kjrose
  2. Ask Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear Slashdot,

    I've been asked by a major semiconductor manufacturer to rebuild their supply chain.

    Basically, I need to replace a network of 4,000 heterogenous machines with a single unified bid system, based on the client's platform. Some systems are overseas, so the system will need to transparently support Asian and European standards as well.

    All legal requirements for all countries must be met, and all low-level transactions most be logged and retained, both paper and digital, according to ISO standards. Currency conversions, bills of lading, etc., all need to be handled transparently.

    All the inventory needs to be tagged with RF IDs, and tracked as it moves from supplier to supplier to the final client. This has to be integrated into the platform directly, and accessible through RF-aware handhelds.

    And I need to have this ready in three weeks.

    I've been playing with some Perl scripts and I think something called "XLM" (or maybe it's "XML") may be the answer. I've also got some bookmarks for currency conversion sites and stuff. Anyway, if anybody has done something similar, I'd appreciate any tips. I'm really new at this and I don't want to mess up.

    Thanks!