What functions will PICA provide?
High-level functions
- a SharedAwarenessSystem
- an accessible, fair, quick, easy, and not overly formal standards track
- community connections, that we might otherwise feel too shy to make
- encouragement!
More specifically
- a formal submission queue; PICA numbered memo series
- Benefits:
- everyone will know when ideas are presented seriously
- this will help demarcate when the brainstorming stage is over, and a proposal is being presented for consideration by the community
- a hub for people to publicize their efforts
- will include news about non-PICA proposals
- bulletin board, wiki, mailing list
- Benefits:
- Exposure for proposals
- A way for interested people to hear about new proposals
- a catalog of standards efforts, both PICA and non-PICA
- including notes on the relationships between various standards
- For example, there should be an entry on Atom, and somewhere on that page there should be a link to the entry on WebDAV?.
- (this is the "standards wiki" idea)
- keeping track of who/how many people ("signees") endorse each standard
- maybe: a voting or endorsement threshold process to make some of the numbered memos "official PICA standards"
- documentation support
- people willing, even eager, to make their software work with yours
- fun and glory
even more specifically
We discuss specific potential standards at PotentialPicaProjects.