Thanks Martin, You have sufficient clarifications in the reply to better explain your thoughts. To keep things short here are some characteristics that give credibility points: - Reproducibility - Publicly available Test Suite - Documentation with examples - Good service indicated by Responsiveness ...

Hi Tony, To your second point regarding 'hidden uses". There will always be negative instances of use. Imposing stricter Quality standards, and increasing competition will reduce the prevalence of negative phenomena. The tools today allow increasing the level of scrutiny. If you give carrots to thos...

Hello Martin, Your post should start a side discussion - so you will notice a new subject for this thread. Hopefully this would interest the committee. Can you give an example where a computational system is credible yet not reproducible? Does this example hold considering newer technology? These da...

Hi All. At your request, here are some suggestions to supplement the slides. These are raw idea that may need refinement. Please feel free to adopt/disregard/change, or keep for possible future consideration. If all members add thoughts, this may get out of hand pretty quickly, so please be selectiv...