On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 11:27 -0400, Quyen Hoang wrote: > Thank you for your post, Herman. > Since there is no holy bible to provide guidance, perhaps we should > hold off the idea of electing a "powerful dictator" to enforce this? > - at least until we all can come to a consensus on how the "dictator" > should dictate...
Well, that is partly what we have the IUCr for, isn't it? A couple of people have referred to the wwPDB in this context, but IMHO the IUCr is a much better forum to try to reach some kind of decision about these issues. If the IUCr has a clear policy, the wwPDB can enforce it (like they did with the deposition of structure factors). If the wwPDB takes a lead a lot of people will get annoyed at them, when the real problem is that crystallographic practitioners haven't come to any agreement amongst themselves. And yes, I know that balancing questions of scientific correctness with the needs of more or less naive consumers of the data isn't straightforward :-) Regards, Peter. -- Peter Keller Tel.: +44 (0)1223 353033 Global Phasing Ltd., Fax.: +44 (0)1223 366889 Sheraton House, Castle Park, Cambridge CB3 0AX United Kingdom
