[T]his document describes a proposed ratification procedure. Discussion of this procedure is taking place on the ratification-discuss@r6rs.org mailing list. The discussion period ends on April 15th. The Scheme Standardization Charter says that after the Editors submit a proposed final draft, "the Steering Committee should then choose either to finalize the draft or to restart the review process." This document describes how the Steering Committee will make that decision.

The ratification process proposed is somewhat unusual (e.g., a no vote will need to include an explanation), but this may change due to the comments sent to the mailing list.

I think many LtU readers should consider taking part in the vote, since as programming languages aficionados we cetainly have a stake in Scheme. Now is the chance to influence the procedural aspects of the ratification process.