[offtopic] your participation is necessary

[Dmitry Turin <dev3os@narod.ru>]

Jonathan,

JR> find someone who is excited about your ideas
JR> and convince them to implement it

Russia almost has no industry,
while convincing somebody over Ocean
(without meeting) is extremely difficult.

JR> if you want to propose this as a standard ...

Yes, i'm proposing

JR> ... a community of users and implementations
JR> will help you make your case.

And when community will begin to help ??


>> Man of good will,
>>
>> please, help me. I'd like to get SQL5 [1] (which support
>> process of XML and has some other features) implemented
>> in at least one DBMS (SQL5 is public domain). There are
>> two ways to get it: to submit for companies,
>> to standardize in ISO JTC1 SC32 WG3 or WG4 [2].
>>
>> I appealed to Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM
>> (submission is registered with #13795 of February 14 2008).
>> They are executing own plans and did not draw decision
>> to implement SQL5 (one man from russian department
>> of Oracle even wrote me, that their managers don't like
>> new ideas at all). I also can't find anybody from Sybase,
>> who would advocate proposal in his company. The same with
>> hackers of free DBMS Postgres.
>>
>> Participation in JTC1 SC32 is possible only via National
>> Body [3], but russian NB ("Federal Agency on Technical
>> Regulating and Metrology" [4]) really does not work
>> (it's a pity, it's usual for organizations of Russia).
>>
>> Thus i ask you to submit SQL5 to your National Technical
>> Committee for consideration (SQL5 would have the "approval"
>> of committee, so it would have a much better chance to pass
>> at the ISO meetings) and to SC32 via your own National Body
>> as an Individual Expert's contribution (document would be
>> provided to the ISO committee for consideration on its own
>> merits even without any approval from your country).
>> I ask you a lot to help.
>>
>> [1] http://sql50.euro.ru/sql5.16.1.pdf
>> [2] http://jtc1sc32.org
>> [3] http://jtc1sc32.org/membership.html
>> [4] http://www.gost.ru


Dmitry Turin
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