The next Forth200x meeting is on September 13-14, just over three
months away. If you want to initiate an RfD and want it to be ready
for the next meeting, you should start soon (recommended: at least 12
weeks before the meeting), and then progress swiftly. If you have
already started an RfD, now is a good time to continue it.

The deadline is that current standings for the CfV must be published
four weeks before the meeting (i.e., on August 16th), and therefore
the CfV should be started 6 weeks before the meeting, i.e. on August
2nd. Experience shows that 6 weeks of discussion or more is often
necessary to stabilize an RfD.

[The deadlines for the next meeting are firm, but here's discussion
material for the meeting: Thinking about the reason for this deadline,
it was in order to give the editor (and the champion for the proposal)
enough time to produce a document that contains the proposals, and to
give the committee members enough time to read the proposals. For the
first purpose, the current standings are not important (they don't go
into the document, do they?), so the deadline should actually be for
the CfV itself. Also, the committee members can read the CfVs without
current standings, so a shorter deadline for the current standings (1
week before the meeting) should be fine; we might still want to have a
six-week period deadline for the CfV. We will see how it works out
this time.]

- anton



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