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From: cmt@myrias.UUCP (Chris Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 meeting notes
Message-ID: <544@myrias.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 87 06:25:43 GMT
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Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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Keywords: ANSI C standard

Doug Gwyn writes:
> There are many major changes between the first and second
> (forthcoming) public review draft proposed standards.  There
> actually is no "review cycle" currently in effect, but be advised
> that this change was asked for several times during the first
> formal public review, so if you like you can consider it made
> "by popular demand".

Pardon my English, but there sure as hell is a review cycle going on: ISO,
and all its member nations (except apparently the USA) are reviewing the May
15 Draft C submitted to ISO by ANSI for review.  Yes, I know that the latest
draft is November 9, and that there was another one in the middle.  I am
astonished to discover that there are "many major changes" in yet another
forthcoming draft.  This is incredible.  Not only is the committee inventing
instead of standardizing existing practice, but it is subverting the review
and consensus process while it is at it.

Perhaps the X3J11 committee should reach internal consensus before jerking
around the entire world on a wild-goose-chase review of a document that
is obsolete before it is even distributed.
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Chris Thomson, Myrias Research Corporation	   alberta!myrias!cmt
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