ECMA International response 1024 to the comment 0001 of Ireland1
Agreed; the Normative References clauses for part 1, 2, 3 and 5 will be replaced with the following:
Part 1:
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Maimon, Rabbi Moshe ben, Complete Restatement of the Oral Law (Mishneh Torah).
Ireland's comment was:
The DIS refers to a large number of additional technical specifications which are not explicitly listed as Normative References.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides
Moses Maimonides (March 30, 1135 Córdoba, Spain – December 13, 1204 Fostat, Egypt), was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. He was one of the various medieval Jewish philosophers who also influenced the non-Jewish world. Although his copious works on Jewish law and ethics were initially met with opposition during his lifetime, he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history. Today, his works and his views are considered a cornerstone of Jewish thought and study.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishneh_Torah
Especially sharp was the blame [in the 12 century] heaped upon Maimonides because he neglected to cite his sources; this was considered an evidence of his superciliousness, since it made it difficult, if not absolutely impossible, for scholars to verify his statements, and compelled them to follow his decisions absolutely.
Which reminds us of ECMA-376 aka OOXML that claims to be better backwards compatible to the existing documents in Microsoft binary format than ISO 26300 but ECMA cannot prove it. Yet, it wants ECMA-376 to become the second ISO standard for the very same purpose.
I wonder if ECMA also would agree to add the following references:
"Chapter 7: A Mad Tea Party", in: Carroll, L.: Alice in Wonderland, London: Macmillan, 1865
Kant, I.: Kritik der Urteilskraft, Konigsberg, 1790
Vlastos, G.: Platonic Studies, Princeton University Press, 1981
Kierkegaard, S.: The Concept of Irony, with Constant Reference to Socrates, Bloomington: Indiana, 1968
Johnston, M.: Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy, 2005
Stross, R.E.: The Microsoft way: real story of how Bill Gates outsmarts the competition, 1998
Sornette, D.: Why stock markets crash, critical events in complex financial systems, Princeton, 2004
Olcott, F.J. (ed.), Stories from the Arabian Nights, London: Harrap, 1923
Stanley, D.: Fiji, Moon, 2004
