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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:33:44 +0100
From: [unknown]
To: PML <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Cc: "Jonathan R. Wagner" <jonathan.r.wagner@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Fw: Re: Repost: An alternative to the Companion Volume?
Forwarded with permission: ----- Original Message ----- =46rom: "Jonathan R. Wagner" <jonathan.r.wagner@mail.utexas.edu> > How about 20 years? That seems like a nice number. If you can't get= your=20 > ideas out in 20 years, you probably never will. Books and counter-b= ooks=20 > can be published in that time. Also, that gives time for a whole ne= w=20 > generation to come into PN and question everything we have done. > > I don't mind the "provisional registration" idea... in fact, I thin= k it=20 > will be better received than "suspending priority for a hundred yea= rs,"=20 > which is what I support. It will have pretty much the same effect, = without=20 > giving the impression that we are abandoning priority altogether. I= guess,=20 > 20 years from now, we just scan the database for homonyms and try t= o come=20 > up with a resolution. Note, however, that publication dates will HA= VE to=20 > be reset. If you do something like I did with Ornithischia, and hav= e names=20 > that are sequenced such that they disappear when their context dies= , it=20 > won't do much good if they have priority over the name that kills t= hem.=20