Emile L. Morse
Tue Apr 23 13:24:12 EDT 1996
This study describes the development and testing of
functions to assist editors in the management and disposition of
comments that are normally made during the refinement and
balloting of a standard. The results of the field test were disappointing
due in large part to delayed software delivery.
Cultural expectations and technological
limitations also had negative impacts. While CASCADE
was ultimately successful in parsing and placing comments in the
reviseable form of the document, early software failures
undermined the editors' faith in the system. The
current state of firewalls for most participants were such that it was
virtually impossible to mount a real-time, shared system for the
participants. We are confident that the evolution of CASCADE into an
RPC-compliant client server system and the development of secure shells
bridging trusted systems will eliminate many of the barriers to use.
- Swantje Willms
- William Pollak
- Craig Meyers
- Michael B. Spring
Abstract:
This paper describes the use of specialized software to assist editors
in the conduct of an IEEE mock ballot. Specifically, the CASCADE
(Computer Augmented Support of Collaborative Authoring and Document
Editing) system was configured to support a mock ballot for IEEE
1003.21 (POSIX: Real Time Distributed System Communication). CASCADE
is an experimental system for the development and exploration of
agents to support the authoring and editing
processes. The mock ballot of IEEE 1003.21 presented an
opportunity to examine the applicability of real time collaborative
systems as an assist to the document editing process
Michael Spring
Tue Apr 23 13:23:13 EDT 1996