All
tough questions, but worth answering. Think of the possibilities. Personally, I think this should be of the free-to-use license, mainly because I don't want to see extensions to the bus that aren't under someone's control. Otherwise, the standard slowly dissolves into chaos.
Every
time an organization question comes up, I think of a sign I had on my
desk when I was the department chairman:
??? For God so loved the world, he didn't send a committee.
Still, there has to be a small knot
of knowledgeable people who know the EE and software side of this. It
needs to be small because it needs to be nimble, yet with enough
technical depth to make things work. I've seen the agony of trying to
define a standard (i.e., the X3J11 committee to write the first standard
for the C language)...it is a formidable task, and the difficult increases with the size of the committee. There are all kinds of technical details to think about and the Atlas bus would at least be a thoughtful starting point.
I think this could be a rewarding endeavor.
Jack, W8TEE
On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 8:36:53 PM EDT, Arv Evans <arvid.evans@...> wrote:
If hams were to design and standardize a ham-bus-system approach to modular equipment,
should the design be placed in public domain, or under one of the free-to-use licenses???
Should a group be formed specifically for the purpose of bus design, documentation, and publication?
How would upgrades, modifications, and alternative bus designs be handled?
Seems there are lots of questions, lots of possible opinions, and lots of work to do.
