The C++ committee met last week. There was lot's of discussion and plans to markedly increase the size of the standard library. Boost has an important part to play; Bjarne Stroustrup hoped for "doubling the output of Boost." Herb Sutter is talking about an effort to shake libraries out of corporations and other large organizations. There seems be be a fresh infusion of energy, with quite a few new faces at the meeting. Plans have firmed and work begun on new C++ library work items. There are lots of changes in process, and these will affect Boost developers wishing to propose Boost libraries for technical reports or the standard itself. Here are some of the process changes: * Library proposals will be taken on as "work Items". A decision as to whether a work item ends up in a technical report, in the standard itself, or even becomes a stand-alone international standard, will be deferred until technical work is complete (I.E. full standardese complete, polished, and ready to ship). * Domain specific "Study Groups" will replace the LWG's current sub-groups. Study groups have official ISO standing, so can get more work done between meetings than the old sub-groups, which were unofficial. * Technical reports will likely be smaller than in the past, and may be domain specific. These changes are intended to allow work on different libraries to proceed in parallel. Medium to large libraries managed by study groups will most likely end up as a TRs and will ship when ready rather than being held waiting for a larger TR to become ready. The study groups set up so far: * SG1: Concurrency and Parallelism (chair: Hans Boehm). This is the old Concurrency sub-group. * SG2: Modules (chair: Doug Gregor). A new sub-group of the committee's evolution working group (EWG). * SG3: File System (chair: Beman Dawes). A LWG sub-group to handle the Boost.Filesystem work item approved at the meeting. * SG4: Networking (chair: Kyle Kloepper). A LWG sub-group to handle the Boost.Asio work item approved at the meeting. There should be a "Call for Library Proposals" in the committee's post-meeting mailing in roughly 10 days. --Beman