Firstly, judging by Inbal's comment on the issue tracker, there exists an
R1-R3 of the paper which has not been put into the paper system. What's up
with that?

Secondly, the issue is strangely not assigned to any subgroup in the
committee right now, which I've been told is an extremely bad situation
that we want to avoid because that essentially means no one will schedule
it since no one is responsible for processing the paper. It used to be
labeled LEWGI and that was removed without adding LEWG, which seems
accidental.

Anyway, you should get in touch with the LEWG chairs (
https://isocpp.org/std/the-committee).

On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 23:14, Rhidian De Wit via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A long while back (~1 year ago) I started the process of submitting a
> proposal for adding first() and last() to std::string and std::string_view,
> but nothing much came of it after an initial review.
> I wanted to ask what the next steps should be to pursue this paper further.
>
> I see that there's a Github issue for it:
> https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/1937 which I wasn't aware of,
> and I'm not sure how to continue this process, which I'd very much like to
> do.
>
> Thanks for the help already!
>
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