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From: Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Latest draft of C++ 11 Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:32:12 +0200
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Michael Doubez wrote:
> 
> On 10 juin, 13:28, Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> wrote:
> > Öö Tiib wrote:
> >
> > > On Jun 10, 1:05 pm, Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> wrote or
> > > actually copy-pasted:
> >
> > > >http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/index.html
> > > >http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/DISCLAIMER.pdf
> >
> > > I didn't get what was your point? . . .
> >
> > The point is that C++ should get rid of ISO and go to ECMA.
> 
> ECMA is not governmental 

Right, that is the key point.

>                          and driven by companies. I am not sure it

Not for profit members such as open source orgs, research institutes,
and government orgs do not pay ECMA membership fees and can vote on
technical committee level, but not on general assembly meetings. See:

http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/NFP.htm

"British Library ... Mozilla Foundation ... Stanford University ... The
Library of Congress ... US Department of Defense"

> would best serve the interest of all. With this organization, C++/CLI
> would already be standard C++.

regards,
alexander.