It's hard to appreciate what's going on at WG14 (or take part) when you can see the results only from afar, with none of the surrounding discussion.
I recently read Jens Gustedt's blog on C2x where he casually recommended this as a way to get involved: "The best is to get involved in the standard’s process by adhering to your national standards body, come to the WG14 meetings and/or subscribing to the committee’s mailing list."
Afaict (from browsing the wg14 site), the mailing list and its archives are not open to access.
> In general, how is one supposed to approach wg14 with ideas or need for clarification on the standard's wording / interpretation?
I'm currently working on an update to the committee website to clarify exactly this sort of thing! Unfortunately, the update is not live yet, but it should hopefully be up Soon™.
Currently, the approach for clarifications and ideas both require you to find someone on the committee to ask the question or champion your proposal for you. We hope to improve this process as part of this website update to make it easier for community collaboration.
In general, the committee accepts what we used to call "defect reports" (now something like "requests for improvement"), assigns them "WG14 series" sequence numbers, and upon requests for "floor time" schedules meeting discussions. Occasional votes are taken, which might trigger modifications to the draft standard. At some point, the committee decides that the updated draft standard is ready for public review, and the various national representatives deal with review comments. All this starts with proposal documents in "WG14 series" form.
It's hard to appreciate what's going on at WG14 (or take part) when you can see the results only from afar, with none of the surrounding discussion.
I recently read Jens Gustedt's blog on C2x where he casually recommended this as a way to get involved: "The best is to get involved in the standard’s process by adhering to your national standards body, come to the WG14 meetings and/or subscribing to the committee’s mailing list."
Afaict (from browsing the wg14 site), the mailing list and its archives are not open to access.
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EDIT: In general, how is one supposed to approach wg14 with ideas or need for clarification on the standard's wording / interpretation?