Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!Firewall!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: ANSI Standard Prolog Keywords: ANSI, Prolog Message-ID: <4961@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 14 Jun 91 18:43:04 GMT References: <1532@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 11 In article <1532@quintus.UUCP> dbowen@quintus.com (David Bowen) writes: >Within the U.S.A. we need more people to participate in X3J17. We are only >a small group at present, perhaps because many people are afraid of being >publicly lambasted by Richard O'Keefe if they participate. The US gets only one vote on an ISO standard. The only way to stop a bad standard is to get people in other countries to get their national member bodies to vote against it. However, X3J17 may be able to influence the standard before it gets to that point. Richard's complaints about the possible standard (is that what they're about?) should not cause anyone to avoid X3J17.