On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:

Thank you, IMHO this is a sensible decision.

The C++ ISO standardization is probably one of the most transparent standardizations anyhow.

But it has to follow the official rules.


Following the official rules would mean making all the GitHub repos private. Making all reflectors private (not all of them are private, and contain people who are no longer ISO members). It would mean forbidding authors from authoring any of their work in their own public GitHub repos. It would mean forbidding authors from talking about P papers in conferences. It would mean members not being able to talk to coworkers if their employer is not an ISO member. It would mean removing wg21.link. And so on. Imagining working under those conditions is a brain hurting exercise.

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