The Message

["Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>]

OK, given Bawden's cautious assent, I'm going to send out the message,
with Bawden's name included, later tonight.

I agree with Moon that we are all probably reluctant to throw a lot of
time down what has been a rather ineffectual rathole of late.  Once
we've got a legitimate (or semi-legitimate) body ready to make
decisions, I have some ideas for how we might proceed in a more
effective way, making some solid decisions and getting them into a
written standard rather than just dithering all over the harder issues.
The idea is to get things operating more or less as they operated in
that last few months before the book was finalized, except in the
constitution of the group and in the form of the written result.  I'll
propose these things once the full technical and steering committees are
in session.

We should probably adjust some mailing lists accordingly, or make a
couple of new ones.

-- Scott