Re: voting period begins, until Feb. 12: "natural interval extension": friendly amendment to M001.02

[Ulrich Kulisch <ulrich.kulisch@xxxxxxx>]

Am 29.01.2016 um 23:39 schrieb Nathalie Revol:

Dear Colleagues,

I was abroad the last days and I did not close the discussion period on January 26, sorry.

The discussion period is now closed and the voting period opens, for a 2-weeks period again, until February 12.

May I remind you of the first sentence of the scope of 1788.1 working group, as accepted by IEEE, and thus that cannot be modified.
"This standard is a subset of the (full) IEEE P1788 Standard for Interval Arithmetic and includes those operations that in the the editors’ view are most commonly used.”
In particular, this means that 1788.1 cannot contain anything that is not already in IEEE 1788-2015. It cannot mandate anything which is not mandatory in IEEE 1788-2015.
** Thus any vote that does not respect this rule will not be accounted for. **

Any proposal for the addition of a new flavour or the addition of any feature, must be done by a new working group.

I don't think so Natalie. IEEE 1788 is the group that defines the standard. We must have the right and use the opportunity to correct a misprint or mistake.

Best regards
	Nathalie

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