754R agenda item for ides of march

[David Hough 754R work <754r@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the previously-requested agenda item to adopt 2006-03-07 as the 
754R working draft succeeds, I request a subsequent agenda item
to discuss and vote on the following motion:

 Remove references to Counting Mode under alternate exception handling
 and reinstate the scaled product functions as proposed in 
 http://754r.ucbtest.org/ballots-2005/withdrawn/scaledproduct.pdf


Rationale: counting mode is an implementation technique rather than
an end-user-programmable feature.     The programmable features are
the scaled product functions.    The whole thrust of alternate exception
handling is to move from implementation techniques (flags and traps)
to end-user-programmable features.