On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:12:07 -0600, Tom Marchant <m42tom- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >Perhaps you mean that when you submit a requirement that you should >explicitly authorize IBM to publish it in any manner that they see fit. >... IBM *does* publish it as it sees fit. It sees fit to keep it secret. But what IBM publishes (or not) is *not* the original submission if it has gone through a user's group. It is the group's modified version of that original submission. And SHARE publishes it in a manner it sees fit. It allows registered users view the requirements. But these are the the requirements as modified during the requirements process - the requirements as submitted ot IBM, not necessarily the requirements as submitted by the originator. The following statement is from SHARE's Requirements HELP: "The Requirement will be jointly owned by SHARE and IBM once it is submitted." In the old paper-based process there was some statement about the requirement becoming the property of SHARE once it has been submitted to SHARE. Hopefully that statement still exists somewhere. Perhaps these statements should be more clearly stated at entry to the Reqs area of the SHARE web site. I'll suggest this at the next meeting of requirements coordinators. Members should be aware of this before they submit requirements. If they don't like it they can opt out of the process. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
