Hi all, After discussing with the steering committee, I wanted to bring up the following: In one of the previous meetings we decided on the timeline for MPI 3.1: the intent is to ratify the complete MPI 3.1 standard by the December meeting, which makes the upcoming September meeting the last meeting to allow for errata votes (actual additions had to be read in March). The main goal of the MPI 3.1 document is/was to create a ³clean² standard that integrates outstanding errata items and the small additions we worked on. While the latter seem to be more or less done, we have multiple outstanding errata items (in particular in RMA, but also a few in tools, potentially also in other areas) that won¹t get done by the September meeting (the respective WG chairs felt their wasn¹t enough time or participation in the Japan meeting for their WG to allow for enough discussion). If we stick with the current timeline, we¹ll have an MPI 3.1 and yet again a good number of errata items next to it, which is counter the intention for publishing an intermediate version before MPI 4.0. This means we are either back in the same situation as now with MPI 3.0 for quite a while longer or we have to go for an MPI 3.2. Neither option seems good. Therefore, I would like to propose to not rush it and to slip the schedule by one (or if needed by two) meetings to make sure we conclude the outstanding errata items. Otherwise, we¹ll end up with a standard that we know is broken by the time we vote for it (we would have the final document vote and the MPI 3.1 errata votes in the same meeting). Opinions? Thanks, Martin ________________________________________________________________________ Martin Schulz, [email protected], http://scalability.llnl.gov/ CASC @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA