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				SD-7</td>
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				Date:</th>
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				2023-02-18</td>
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				Reply to:</th>
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				Nevin Liber</td>
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				Mailing procedures</td>
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<p>
	<em>Note: This document is intended for WG21 committee members. If you are not a committee member, please see the <a href="https://isocpp.org/std/submit-a-proposal">How To Submit a Proposal page</a> for public instructions about how to get started with a proposal.</em></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 1;">This is a summary of the procedures to be used for submitting papers to PL22.16/WG21.</span></p>
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	We are fortunate to have a very large volume of papers, but to allow&nbsp;everyone to make the best use of their time in reading the papers, some&nbsp;additional effort is needed from the authors.</p>
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		Please make sure the document header includes the information specified&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1;">below.</span></li>
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		<span style="line-height: 1;">Non-trivial papers should include an abstract.</span></li>
	<li>
		<span style="line-height: 1;">Papers that revise earlier papers should provide a change history to&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1;">allow people to focus on the changed sections of the paper.</span></li>
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	Items (2) and (3) above are not needed for things like working drafts,&nbsp;papers that essentially just provide working paper changes for an issue&nbsp;or feature, and issue lists excerpts for reference by straw polls.</p>
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	The following information should be included in the document header:</p>
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		Document Number: Nxxxx or PxxxxRy</li>
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		<span style="line-height: 1;">Date: yyyy-mm-dd</span></li>
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		Reply-to: Name and email-address</li>
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		Authors: (only if different than reply-to)</li>
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		Audience: working group(s) and/or study groups to which the paper is&nbsp;directed, or WG21 if the full committee</li>
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	This may precede or follow the document title depending on the way in&nbsp;which your document is formatted.</p>
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	In the past, many documents included something like:</p>
<blockquote>
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		"Project:&nbsp; ISO JTC1/SC22/WG21: Programming Language C++"</p>
</blockquote>
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	While you are welcome to include this, it is not necessary.</p>
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	The above should only be considered as the information needed, not the&nbsp;formatting. People prepare documents in a variety of ways, and that is fine.</p>
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	In particular, the "audience" is the piece of information most commonly&nbsp;not made explicit.&nbsp; For the audience, you can put working group names&nbsp;(Core, Evolution, Library, etc.), study groups (concurrency, modules,&nbsp;etc.).&nbsp; The group names are generally used in the document index, so&nbsp;you might want to use those in your document.&nbsp; But if you put SG1 in&nbsp;your document, I will normalize that to Concurrency in the index.</p>
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	Note also that a document can have more than one audience.</p>
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	Meeting announcements, minutes, working drafts, editor&#39;s reports, and&nbsp;official document submissions (CD, PDTS, etc.), and records of response&nbsp;must use N numbers.</p>
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	All other documents should use P numbers.</p>
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	P documents will initially be published as P0xxxR0 (revision 0). The document&nbsp;number in the paper header should be in that format.&nbsp; If you submit an&nbsp;updated version at some point, it will still be P0xxx, but will be&nbsp;revision 1.</p>
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	The revision numbers only change when a document is submitted for a mailing.</p>
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	Documents circulated as drafts should have D numbers (Dxxxx for N documents,&nbsp;and D0xxxRn for P documents).&nbsp; Only documents for publication should have&nbsp;the N or P numbers.</p>
<p>
	To obtain a document number, send mail to vice-chair <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#18767d6e7176587b68746d6b68746d6b7f6d61367b7775">Nevin Liber</a>. &nbsp;Include as much of the document header information as is available in the document number request.</p>
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	Documents must be in PDF, HTML (.html or .htm), text (.txt), or Markdown (.md) format.</p>
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	For Markdown files, use UTF-8 encoding. For HTML files, make sure that the encoding is specified in the file. For text files, please use US ASCII (ISO 646) encoding.</p>
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	Markdown documents should follow the following rules:</p>
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		Files should be usable either in their original text form or as formatted by a Markdown processor, so make sure the text form is well formatted.</li>
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		The document should follow the <a href="http://commonmark.org">Commonmark specification</a></li>
</ol>
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	The pre-meeting mailing deadline is the Monday four weeks before the start of the meeting.</p>
<p>
	The post-meeting mailing is the Monday three weeks after the start of the meeting.</p>
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	All papers must be received by the vice-chair by 14:00 UTC on the Monday of the mailing deadline.</p>
      
      
            
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