[LINK] New Core Body Of Knowledge for the ICT Profession

[Tom Worthington]

At 05:17 PM 12/07/2007, steve jenkin wrote:
>Tom Worthington wrote on 28/6/07 11:22 AM:
>
>I'm guessing from the lack of any "thank you, your comments duly 
>noted and will be forwarded in due course" ...

To clarify for other readers, I did not write the above. My message 
28/6/07 was an invitation to comment on an ACS Discussion Paper 
revising the Core Body Of Knowledge: 
<http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2007-June/074748.html>.

>that we were just ... in the wind responding on this list ...

Responses to the list were not requested. As my message said, the 
details on how to comment are given in the paper: 
<http://www.acs.org.au/attachments/acs_CBOK_Position_Paper.pdf>.

Some Linkers sent comments to the list, or directly to me by email. 
These comments typically started with "Please pass on the following 
comments", so I forwarded them to the ACS email address given in the 
paper. I acknowledged each of those with an email reply to each 
sender individually.

Some comments to the Link list did not explicitly state that they 
were intended for input to the process and I did not pass those on. 
Any general discussion I think relevant I will summarize and pass on, 
but it would be inappropriate for me to treat these in the same way 
as comments explicitly addressed to the ACS. The authors may not wish 
to be quoted, nor have the comments attributed to the organisations 
their email is coming from.

If any Linker made a comment they intended for the ACS working party 
and have not had an acknowledgment from me, they should send it 
directly to the email address of the working party given in the 
paper. This is a more efficient and reliable process than sending the 
comments through me.

>Please don't reply if you can't say when the submission containing 
>comments will hit the ACS Council. ...

What is being developed will go through several more iterations 
before anything appears at the ACS's national decision making body. 
The precess is detailed in the paper. I doubt that the content of 
each comment received will appear in the final document presented to 
the ACS Council for a decision.

As I noted in my message I have an interest the Body of Knowledge, as 
I chair the ACS's  Professional
Development Board: <http://www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram/>. But I was 
passing on the paper at the request of the ACS Professional Standards 
Board (that board makes standards which my board then implements). As 
the paper suggested, feedback on any aspect of the review can be sent 
to the ACS Professional Standards Board, at the address given in the paper.



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