Issues in the Design of Computer Support for Co-authoring and Commenting
C.M. Neuwirth, D.S. Kaufer, R. Chandhok, and J.H. Morris
Oct 29, 1999

• I agree with the authors that system defined roles must be flexible, and that planing and writing are performed hand-to-hand. However regarding the use of explicitly defined roles I have my reservations.
• The authors present a dichotomy in the communication support of: plans and comments. Is this dichotomy really necessary?
• Are today's systems more permeable?
  How?
• I think it is necessary to add WYSISYG features to the content column in the draft. Comments do not always refer to content, but also to the form and appearance.
• Issue: multiple commenters would require multiple columns in the drafts. This can be very expensive from the screen real estate point of view.
• Notorious fact: they attempt using font size and space relationships. This points to other work like VIKI.
• The presentation about versioning makes it look less complex than it actually is.