Subject: Note from Larry Fisher

From: "Chung-Huy Chen (254-4827 T/L 444)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:51:28 EST

I'd like to share the following note from Larry Fisher at Attachmate
  with the SIG.  And I hope any comments, concerns, or suggestions
  will be addressed to the whole SIG, i.e., sending your mail to
       [email-masked]

  Thanks.

  Chung-Huy Chen
------------------------- Referenced Note ------------------------------------
To: [email-masked]
Date: 01 Mar 94 16:18:39 EST
From: [email-masked]
Subject: <None>

Hi Chen,

Thanks for asking for my input. Hope things are going well
with you.

Here's a brief note to try to express my stance on the
Automatic Data Conversion SIG.

The reason that the SIG is having a difficult time of
designing automatic data conversion into CPIC and its
underlying layers is that it doesn't belong within CPIC.
Data conversion should be isolated to the applications and
presentation services layers and the appl should directly
access the presentation services with all the needed info.
The application partners should pass their mapping info
directly as data appl layer to appl layer transparently to
the underlying layers.

It seems that a simple architectural issue is being twisted
into a complicated architectural issue by involving more
components than are necessary.