CONTACTS 
0201 - Kwan Henmi                           415 777 4770 fax 5102
020101 - Mr. William N. Long, AIA; Architect

SUBJECTS
Moscone Center, Phase III
Welch Company
Contracts/Agreements
HTML Tools Web Page Development
Linking HTML Too Slow for Management
Linking SDS Faster Internet Web Pages

0908 -    ..
0909 - Summary/Objective
0910 -
091001 - Follow up ref SDS 5 0000, ref SDS 2 0000.
091002 - ..
091003 - I came by this morning to deliver the edited notes on the
091004 - meeting with Teecom on 981021, ref SDS 6 3850, to Robert Rudeen for
091005 - final review.  He was not available, so I talked to Bill Long about
091006 - his request for a proposal last Friday, on Moscone.
091007 -
091008 - I gave the notes to Bill for delivery to Robert.
091009 -
091010 - Bill has reviewed my letter ref DIP 1 0000 issued yesterday, see the
091011 - record at, ref SDS 5 3969, linked to discussion on 981023 on a
091012 - proposal Bill requested at ref SDS 2 2032
091013 - ..
091014 - Bill advised that he has sent a return email proposing to reduce
091015 - the budget for Communication Metrics on Moscone. ref SDS 2 5760  He
091016 - has forwarded my proposal to Robert Rudeen.  Bill wants me to talk to
091017 - Robert about a minimal scope to support the Moscone project through
091018 - March 1999.
091019 -
091020 -      [On 981028 received Bill's letter. ref SDS 7 0000]
091021 - ..
091022 - He has not done any further research on upgrading Kwan Henmi
091023 - Internet access, as discussed on 981023. ref SDS 2 1100
091024 -
091025 -     I offered to obtain pricing from vendors cited in the record. Bill
091026 -     plans to investigate further later.
091027 - ..
091028 - Bill noticed in my letter on 981026 the link to formats for
091029 - graphics to explain Communication Meterics, as he requested. ref SDS
091030 - 2 1581,
091031 -
091032 - He has not reviewed the schematics.
091033 -
091034 - I suggested we meet later in the week to plan what graphics he would
091035 - like to present for Communication Metrics.
091036 -
091037 - Bill recognized that SDS is a complex data base.  I advised of Morris'
091038 - explanation of SDS as a composite hierarchial and relational data
091039 - base.
091040 -
091041 -
091042 -
091043 -  ..
091044 - Conventional HTML Tools Too Slow for Management
091045 -
091046 - Bill said something about the prospects of using off-the-shelf HTML
091047 - tools, by Microsoft and others, to create the Communication Metrics
091048 - web pages.
091049 -
091050 - He seemed to ask or indicate that this could make it easier for team
091051 - members to contribute in creating and maintaining the record on the
091052 - web site.
091053 -
091054 - We discussed briefly experience using conventional HTML tools shows
091055 - that there is a significant trade-off in providing a simple means for
091056 - everyone to create web pages, including links that appear in SDS, and
091057 - the time required to accomplish these tasks.  In sum, it takes too
091058 - long with these methods for cost effective production by managers.
091059 -
091060 - Communication Metrics provides the advantage of carefully designed
091061 - information structures that can be instantly converted into HTML code
091062 - for display as linked web pages on a browser.  This makes it possible
091063 - and cost effective to deliver "intelligence" over the Internet for
091064 - daily management support.
091065 -
091066 - I mentioned research on 971108 showing that conventional Internet
091067 - methods are too cumbersome to support management. ref SDS 1 1111,
091068 - citing other sources on the same point.
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091070 -
091071 -
0911 -