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    From =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=B6ran?= Weinholt@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 12 00:42:11 2020
    Hello schemers,

    I just noticed that IEEE Scheme has been withdrawn: <https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1178-1990.html>

    | Published Date: 1990-11-30
    | Reaffirmed: 2008-03-27
    | Withdrawn Date: 2019-11-07

    Does anyone know the story behind the withdrawal?

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  • From Arthur A. Gleckler@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 11 15:51:24 2020
    If no one does the work to reaffirm an IEEE standard, it eventually expires and is automatically withdrawn.

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  • From John Cowan@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 11 20:21:01 2020
    On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 6:42:15 PM UTC-4, Göran Weinholt wrote:

    I just noticed that IEEE Scheme has been withdrawn:

    I brought this up at LtU in 2016:
    <http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5324>.

    No one was interested, so this was inevitable.



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    John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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    Q: "What does Pat Nixon frost her cakes with?"
    --"Jeopardy" for generative semanticists

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Marc_Nieper=2DWi=C3=9Fkir@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 12 00:22:07 2020
    Am Sonntag, 12. April 2020 05:21:04 UTC+2 schrieb John Cowan:
    On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 6:42:15 PM UTC-4, Göran Weinholt wrote:

    I just noticed that IEEE Scheme has been withdrawn:

    I brought this up at LtU in 2016:
    <http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5324>.

    No one was interested, so this was inevitable.

    There had been some subsequent discussion afterward but it fell asleep.




    --
    John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
    A: "Spiro conjectures Ex-Lax."
    Q: "What does Pat Nixon frost her cakes with?"
    --"Jeopardy" for generative semanticists

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  • From Po Lu@21:1/5 to goran@weinholt.se on Sat Apr 18 15:40:30 2020
    goran@weinholt.se (Göran Weinholt) writes:

    Hello schemers,

    I just noticed that IEEE Scheme has been withdrawn: <https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1178-1990.html>

    | Published Date: 1990-11-30
    | Reaffirmed: 2008-03-27
    | Withdrawn Date: 2019-11-07

    Does anyone know the story behind the withdrawal?

    AFAICT, IEEE standards expire if nobody is there to actively maintain
    them, and I assume that's what happened with the IEEE Scheme standard.

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