TIC WG A, minutes from teleconference, May 26, 2004

Participants: Mitch Withers, Dave Oppenheimer, Egill Hauksson,
Paul Whitmore, Won-young Kim, C.B. Crouse, John Heintz.

Egill informed the group of a web-site that addresses performance
standards for the Hudson River cleanup primarily 
(http://www.epa.gov/hudson/quality_life.htm).  The standards are
divided into several sections (e.g. lighting, noise, odor). Overview
fact sheets are provided for each section and more detailed
specifications are provided in the complete document.  The structure
of the document provides a nice model potentially applicable to
ANSS.

We don't what to avoid details but do need to organize the monstrous
table into a more easily addressed form.  This does not imply that
matrix of Product x Time x Quality x Reliability isn't applicable.
Major categories can be Seismicity, Ground Shaking, Engineering data,
Rapid notification, data archiving, and data sharing.  Some products
may need to be cross-listed in more than one category.  In order to
make progress, we need to just go ahead and write draft sections
and start passing them around among the WG for comment.  The following
people volunteered:

Seismicity, Egill Hauksson
Ground Shaking, Mitch Withers
Engineering Data, Jon Heintz
Rapid Notification, Paul Whitmore
Data Archiving, Dave Oppenheimer
Data Sharing, Mitch Withers

Document could go from general to standards to discussion.  Mitch will
transform the table from last time into the above categories.

Need to make sure that the standards don't become business rules.  We
don't necessarily need that level of detail.

Next conference call same time (1pm EDT) on June 22.