RE: Lack of Manufacturer keyword

Hi Scott:

  There is a [Manufacture] keyword in the document (see the top of page 10)
and it does as you propose. You are correct in that the [Source] keyword
should be used only to record the originating source (place and method of
extraction) of the model data. Note that the wording describing the
[Source] keyword is different than that in the IBIS-X spec. I'm working
with Gus to clean this up.

  Thanks,
  Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McMorrow [mailto:scott@vasthorizons.com]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:44 AM
To: ibis
Subject: Lack of Manufacturer keyword

All,

I do not like the dual purpose use of the [Source] keyword. It is used to
record the manufacturer's name, and the place and method
from whence the model was created. This mixes two pieces of information
that are both useful. I propose addition of another
keyword:

[Part Manufacturer] which can be used to contain the name of the
manufacturer of the part. This will make it very easy to search
for manufacturers in a database of connector models and makes the
manufacturer of the part unambiguous.

[Source] then becomes the source of the information for extraction, which
might also be some person or organization other than the
connector manufacturer.

regards,

scott

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Scott McMorrow
Principal Engineer
SiQual, Signal Quality Engineering
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