Dear Lars,

thanks for driving the process with your enquiries. I have (tried to document how we want to proceed in https://trac.mathweb.org/OM3/wiki/OMReview (this is mostly the content of the earlier e-mail, but some more infrastructure).

 What I'm not quite sure about is how to proceed. We're now in -- is it week 2
 or week 3? -- of the first round of the "OpenMath2+ Process".

I would like to use the first round to collect OM2 Errata and have people 
submit SEPs. I have also rescheduled the issues left over from the OM3 process 
in 2008 in TRAC milestones (see https://trac.mathweb.org/OM3/roadmap). So that 
we are not starting from zero.

 This issue
 (like pretty much all issues that have been raised so far, I think) belong in
 round 2 (OMOBJ). Does that mean I should have a Standard Enhancement Proposal
 written out by the start of that round? (What date would that round start
 at?) What should one do with a SEP -- put it on the net somewhere and post
 its URL to the list?

SEPs should be tickets on the OM3 TRAC, just register for the TRAC as specified 
in https://trac.mathweb.org/register/wiki/account, then you can open tickets 
for SEPs via https://trac.mathweb.org/OM3/newticket please schedule it to the 
appropriate milestone (OM2+OMOBJ in this case).

the thing I would most like to see changed in the current standard (well, not
counting fixing the downright but minor errors) is to lift the restriction on
OMBIND that it must have exactly three children. Rather, I think it should
(like OMA) allow any number of children, as long as the first is the binder
(typically a symbol) and the second is the OMBVAR with the variables it
binds. Since this issue was last up for discussion (two years ago, I think),
I have furthermore become aware of a new use-case: Lindström quantifiers.
That is interesting to hear, as you know James and I have proposed the same extension in an OpenMath paper 2009 (see http://kwarc.info/kohlhase/papers/om09-quantifiers.pdf). I have opened a SEP for this one (https://trac.mathweb.org/OM3/ticket/136), which you can comment on and chime in on the discussion.
Finally, for this particular issue, I seem to recall Prof. Davenport already
had something akin to a SEP, so maybe amending that would be better than
writing something new from scratch...
exactly.

Michael
Lars Hellström

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