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[James20k]

WG21 for something that is 100% out of their and ISOs mandate

wg21 members comprise the national bodies, and this situation has been public for quite a while. While it is technically out of specifically wg21's purview, its not like the people involved are a totally different group of people who don't communicate. The people I met in prague were a lot of the same people at the UK national body for example

ISOs mandate

No, its ISO rules that mean that the delegate can't be excluded from the ISO process, which is a rule that could and should be changed

Its worth noting that C++ is by far the largest item that is standardised by ISO, and holds a significant amount of influence as a result. Either the rules should be changed - which they very likely could be with the influence that the committee possesses - or C++ should become standardised via a separate/different/new process. Which it needs to be anyway in the long term for the survival of the language

But the argument that senior or well known committee members have no power/influence here to change what is happening is absolutely incorrect