Subject: RE: [IBIS] EIA IBIS Open Forum Minutes (05/31/02)
From: Matthew Flora (mflora@innoveda.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 11:39:01 PDT
Hi Al,
> I guess that brings up another risk of keeping the official parser
> closed-source. There is a risk that an unofficial open-source parser
> may become more accepted than the official closed-source one.
Making the committee parser open-source does not prevent this from
happening.
One could still write their own parser which might become more popular than
the original.
> Actually, the current funding model doesn't work. There is more to
> it than making a parser to a spec. The current model provides no
> incentive for anyone but a proprietary EDA vendor to take any
> interest in development. It is particularly offensive to the
> academic and open source communities.
Offensive or simply uninteresting or too expensive? Why would those
communities be offended when the parser was not developed for them?
> > ... Stephen Peters concurred, and he also reiterated his belief
> > that the gatekeeper(s) must be committed to a stable and long
> > term relationship with the IBIS Open Forum.
>
> Perhaps, but you need to consider why some people might have dropped
> out, or have been dormant. I believe that the gatekeeper(s) must be
> as impartial as possible, certainly not part of a vendor of
> proprietary software. How about ... "the gatekeeper(s) must be
> committed to a stable and long term relationship with open source
> software and open standards." Even so, this role can be transferred
> fairly easily.
I doubt it is that black and white. I work for a vendor of proprietary
software, yet I have requested and made fixes/enhancements to the parser
simply because I got tired of builders of bad models telling me that the
model
wasn't a bad model because the Golden Parser didn't report anything wrong
with it (e.g. it didn't catch [Ramp]s with infinite slopes).
I don't care what happens to the source so long as some sense of order is
maintained in its development and distribution. Since the IBIS Open Forum
has provided the parser, I do feel that a Gatekeeper, if any, should be
responsible to the committee.
Best regards,
Matthew Flora
Innoveda, Inc. (soon to be Mentor Graphics)
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