Message 2003-10-0002: Re: revised PhyloCode is available

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:40:13 +0100

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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:40:13 +0100
From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
To: cantino@ohiou.edu
Cc: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: revised PhyloCode is available

> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:18:22 -0400
> From: Philip Cantino <cantino@ohiou.edu>
> 
> Version 2 of the PhyloCode is now available at
> http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/.  It includes modifications agreed
> upon at the second workshop on phylogenetic nomenclature, held in
> July 2002 at Yale University.

Is this a typo for "July 2002", or has it really taken fifteen months
for the results of the workshop to make it into a new draft?

> The introductory text on the home page provides some background.

For anyone who's not read it, the hot news seems to be:

	An important decision made at the Yale workshop is
	that the rules governing clade names and those
	governing species names will be published in separate
	documents, and the timing of implementation of the two
	documents will be independent. The rules for clade
	names will almost certainly be implemented before
	those for species names because the latter have not
	yet been drafted. Only clade names are covered by the
	current version of the PhyloCode.

Amen!

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