From quinlan at transmeta.com Mon Jan 7 10:51:20 2002 From: quinlan at transmeta.com (Daniel Quinlan) Date: Thu Jul 12 12:39:09 2007 Subject: [lanana-discuss] creating a LANANA workgroup In-Reply-To: <15373.23535.986015.139464@sodium.transmeta.com> References: <15373.7277.169077.773928@sodium.transmeta.com> <20011204223016.F18093@dtype.org> <15373.23535.986015.139464@sodium.transmeta.com> Message-ID: <15417.60968.836324.600457@sodium.transmeta.com> In the interest of moving this foward, I propose this basic structure: - subgroup leaders - 3 person committee (editors are eligible) - mailing list The committee has these roles: - appointing/removing subgroup leaders - handling appeals - creating subgroups Subgroup leaders basically run the show for their databases. hpa is grandfathered in as subgroup leader for devices and unicode assignments. The committee is elected by approval voting of LANANA mailing list members who are Free Standards Group individual members. Subgroup leaders can only be removed by 2/3 vote of the committee with approval of the Free Standards Group board of directors. Appointments only happen when there is a vacancy (by resignation, removal, or new subgroup). Hmm... new subgroups should probably be reviewed by the board as well. Any comments? - Dan > I'd like to get started on turning LANANA into a workgroup, perhaps even > finishing as soon as our Jan 7 board meeting. I know this is a busy > time of year for everyone, so that may not be entirely feasible to > finish before February, but we certainly can get started. > > I will be forwarding this message to LSB, FHS, and maybe a few other > Linux standardization mailing lists so any interested parties can join > the lanana-discuss mailing list by going to: > > http://freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/lanana-discuss > > As far as the official documentation required to create the workgroup > goes, http://www.freestandards.org/policy/fsg102-newworkgroup-draft.txt > is a good place to start even though it's not quite official policy yet. > We can generate a "FSG102" document with these sections: > > FSG102-1 PROBLEM DECLARATION AND SOLUTION ABSTRACT > FSG102-2b TECHNICAL GOALS OUTLINE > FSG102-3a CORE PARTICIPANTS LIST > FSG103-3b TASK OUTLINE > > We should include decision-making policy and the overall process. > > If you have any questions or comments about the policy draft, please > direct them to Drew Streib . > > - Dan > > Daniel Quinlan wrote: > >> We're setting up an open LANANA mailing list (at sourceforge) with >> the purpose of forming an official LANANA (Linux Assigned Names and >> Numbers Authority) working group under the Free Standards Group, >> formalizing the process as necessary, and getting any new required >> subgroups up and running. >> >> We can discuss the existing groups as well -- Peter may prefer to >> continue running those as benevolent dictatorships, but we do need to >> have a succession plan and we may want to have an appeals process or >> something like that. >> >> Sub-groups of LANANA will initially cover: >> >> - device naming (existing, hpa) >> - unicode assignments (existing, hpa) >> - LSB namespace requirements (does not exist, ?) From grhoten at us.ibm.com Tue Jan 22 17:31:57 2002 From: grhoten at us.ibm.com (George Rhoten) Date: Thu Jul 12 12:39:09 2007 Subject: [lanana-discuss] Question about LANANA Message-ID: Hello all, Excuse me for e-mailing everyone on the list, but I was wondering what the status is of the LANANA group. I'm rather new to the LI18NUX, freestandards.org and their associated groups. This list seem a little inactive, and I'm wondering where all the action is. I'm mainly interested in the Unicode mappings for every character set and their associated aliased names. The LI18NUX System Architecture group recently published a codeset alias table at http://www.li18nux.net/docs/html/CodesetAliasTable-20020121.html but I didn't hear about it on this list. Is this the right list for such topics? George Rhoten IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU San Jose, CA, USA From hpa at zytor.com Thu Jan 24 12:52:43 2002 From: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Thu Jul 12 12:39:09 2007 Subject: [lanana-discuss] Question about LANANA References: Message-ID: <3C50741B.4030605@zytor.com> George Rhoten wrote: > Hello all, > > Excuse me for e-mailing everyone on the list, but I was wondering what the > status is of the LANANA group. I'm rather new to the LI18NUX, > freestandards.org and their associated groups. > > This list seem a little inactive, and I'm wondering where all the action > is. I'm mainly interested in the Unicode mappings for every character set > and their associated aliased names. > > The LI18NUX System Architecture group recently published a codeset alias > table at http://www.li18nux.net/docs/html/CodesetAliasTable-20020121.html > but I didn't hear about it on this list. > > Is this the right list for such topics? > Not particularly. LANANA is a project intended as a clearing house for number assignments and similar for Linux. As far as Unicode is concerned, LANANA maintains the "Linux Zone", i.e. Linux-wide private zone code point assignments. See http://www.lanana.org/ -hpa