[r6rs-discuss] 75 words?

[Neil Jerram]

2009/1/2 Alan Bawden <Scheme at bawden.org>:
>   Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:05:47 +0000
>   From: "Neil Jerram" <neiljerram at googlemail.com>
>
>   I'm sure I should have raised this before, but now that registration
>   is nearly upon us...
>
> The period for public comment ended back in November.  During that period,
> nobody objected to this requirement.  So it is too late to change it now.
>
>   Why 75 words?  It only takes 13 for me to say "Guile is an
>   implementation of Scheme, and I am one of its maintainers."  What
>   are you looking for in the Statement of Interest that a simple
>   statement like that does not provide?
>
> I guess we're looking for more words...
>
>   If this has already been discussed to death in the past, please feel
>   free to point me to that.
>
> No, actually, it wasn't discussed at all.  The steering committee picked
> that number out of the air on the theory that if anybody had a problem with
> it, they would object during the comment period.  Nobody objected.

OK, fair enough, and thanks for your response.  I should have
commented earlier, and having failed to do that, I'll add some more
words when I register!

       Neil