Re: [idn] Future of the requirements document

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Eric,

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

> Rick,
>
> Is that your best engineering judgement, that absence of requirements is
> not, in general, a technical error? Is there something self-evident about
> IDN in particular that makes the absence of requirements a non-error?

yes, i'm quite confident in my assertion that the requirements should be
dropped; I do wish you could have been there for the meeting we had a nice
debate about the topic.

> As the subject was not broached to the list prior to the meeting, and was
> presented as a fait-accompli, the sudden optimism that requirements are a
> distraction, and progress self-illuminating and certain, is a surprise.

hmm I remember seeing it in the chairs notes before the meeting, and as a
topic on the agenda, so there was time for you to raze the issue.

> Each of you must be very certain of your actions, and secure in their
> outcomes, and unconcerned by the possibility of error.

hey, i make mistakes all the time and if i do i try to do them in the full
public view just so i can be ridiculed; and i usually take the time to say
i made a mistake, but this time i don't think i have. i think we are
finally and appropriately focused.

-rick