Subject: [sv-bc] Statements to the Press
From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 23:10:46 PDT
We are living in exciting & scary times. These are also fragile
times. In our little corner of the world a controversial area is
the interaction of System Verilog and IEEE 1364. Ideally we can all
come together and rally around a single Verilog Language. Perhaps
we cannot. I personally am working towards the former.
Currently statements made to the Press by individuals may be quoted
as if stating the position of Accellera, of the IEEE, of the IEEE
1364 Working Group, or of the individual's company.
Of course most of us play on multiple teams, I.E., have an employer,
serve on (numerous) Accellera committees and on the IEEE 1364 Working
Group and one or more of its Task Forces; so the score card is very
hard for the press to follow.
When the IEEE 1364 Working Group indeed expresses an opinion to the
Press, it will be an opinion that is formulated using the consensus
process that we are required to use for everything else we do.
What I would like to ask members of the IEEE 1364 Working Group is
the following: When expressing an opinion, please state that you are
not speaking for the IEEE 1364 Working group, but in the opinion of
(yourself, your employer, whomever else you have been given license
to express the opinion of) you would like to state X Y & Z.
Indeed this is how I conduct my public presence, independently of on
who's behalf I am speaking; and I recognize that even then, one will
likely still get quoted out of context.
It would be terrible for one to lose their job because they were
misquoted in the Press as stating the opinion of some entity.
-- Michael McNamara IEEE 1364 Working Group Chairman speaking for my cat
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