[sv-bc] RE: [P1800] Fw: P1800 Approval Notification

Congratulations to all!

 

I would like to point out the following from the IEEE Standards
Companion:

 

When your standard has been approved, it is not yet complete. It will
receive a thorough, detailed edit from a professional IEEE standards
editor. The role of an editor is to ensure that the standard is
grammatically and syntactically correct using American English. It is
not an editor's role to make any changes that affect the technical
meaning of the standard--indeed, this is not allowed. The editor can,
however, make rewordings, editorial changes, and formatting changes to
assist in publication of the standard. The editor also ensures that the
document meets the rules for IEEE standards style as outlined in the
IEEE Standards Style Manual
<http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/index.html> . 

The editor normally works with a primary contact point for the working
group (usually the chair or technical editor). The editor will discuss
any questions or potentially problematic changes with this contact. The
contact will also receive pages of the final standard to review and
approve prior to publication. 

The editorial process is quite painstaking--there are very few people
who read the standard in as detailed a manner as the editor. Depending
on the length of the document, this can take some time to complete.
Therefore, working groups should be patient when it comes to receiving
their edited standard. 

Sometimes during the process of review the editor or the working group
will find errors in the approved standard. Glaringly obvious
typographical errors are fixed, but sometimes these errors consist of
things like incorrect numbers in an equation, an incorrectly drawn
figure, or a major misstatement in a paragraph. It is the IEEE editor's
job to determine if these changes are editorial and can be made
straightforwardly. By the very nature of their job, the editors are
conservative in their acknowledgment of these requests for technical
changes or corrections. In many cases, the action taken will be to go to
the next RevCom meeting that occurs during publication preparation and
ask for RevCom's review and opinion of the technical change. If RevCom
will approve the technical change, it can be made. If not, it has to be
saved for an amendment or a future revision. (Keep in mind that if more
straightforward typos are found after publication, an errata sheet can
be issued at that time.)

 

So we might still be able to correct at least typographical errors, of
which we have already found some.

 

Shalom