Talk:JAUS

Updated the page to reflect the fact that the RA is not going to be maintained any longer by the AS4 committee.

I am not sure of the etiquette here, but I think the notes below can go away. --Woody 01:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Woody English (talk • contribs)

Hey, person from RE2 who is defacing this page. I am an engineer who develops robots, and I'm currently exploring options for a JAUS SDK, and seeing how your representative is behaving here makes me unlikely to choose your SDK.

Looking at the page history, it seems as though the best solution is to include external links to multiple sources, including both OpenJAUS and the RE2 software thing, or neither.

The Wikipedia convention is to provide links to prominent open source implementations, as open source is an educational tool. See the Wikipedia entries for VPN, IPMI, SNMP, SSH, TELNET, or any other standard protocol you can think of. You'll see a link to one or more open source implementations, but no commercial products. Wikipedia is for education, it is not an advertising medium.

I see both proprietary and open source links on the Wikepedia page for the the Java programming language. Even more applicable is the Wikipedia page for DDS (Data_Distribution_Service). I certainly don't see any reason both proprietary and open source links couldn't live on the JAUS page as well.

I think the most productive solution for everyone would be a separate Wikipedia article on JAUS-compliant_vehicles, with a See Also link from the main JAUS article. Various software implementations would be a natural part of that article.

Starting, or even trying to start, a page entitled "JAUS-Compliant Vehicles" is a can of worms. As there is no prescribed compliance entity that validates compliance, there is no actual way to prove that statement. There is a compliance document which the JAUS Working Group recently updated, but again, no group or entity provides accepted testing for compliance with JAUS. The root of the problem here is simple. Is Wikipedia a source of advertising for those who wish to use it as such? An open-source implementation is obviously an educational tool, for those interested in the how and whys of JAUS. Perhaps RE2 and OpenJAUS should each have their own Wikipedia articles with See Also's. Then as new implementations are brought to market, they could follow a similar pattern and leave the reader with options for further information. This would allow details of the various implementations to live in their own space.Draco098 17:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, "compliant" is a loaded word, and that isn't really what I meant. I still think the number of vehicles that now support JAUS messages is significant enough to warrant an article. The Unmanned_Ground_Vehicle article is a great example.

NM... changed my mind. Draco098 01:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]