RE: Hot news: the ICBN voted to accept electronic publication

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

  Let me amend my earlier statement, which while excited and spells doom for 
the issue of early advance online nomenclature confusion, is limited to the 
botanical code. It spells doom for the zoological code, as well. But it will 
not be retroactive, which means while it will settle issues like 
*Epidendrosaurus ningchengensis* versus *Scansoriopteryx heilmanni* in the 
future, it won't retroactively support the digital nomenclature. It helps with 
_PLoS_ group publications, _Zootaxa_ and _Pal. Elec._, among many others. I 
suspect it will also stop advance online publication of nomenclature of 
ostensibly paper journals (e.g., _ZJLS_).

  But still, Hot Diggity.


Cheers,

  Jaime A. Headden
  The Bite Stuff (site v2)
  http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race
has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion 
Backs)


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> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:39:31 +0100
> From: mike@indexdata.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Hot news: the ICBN voted to accept electronic publication
>
> Hot news, just in: the ICBN voted to accept electronic publication!
>
> Note that's the IC*B*N (the botanical code), not the IC*Z*N (the
> zoological code which governs sauropod names, plus one or two other
> less important groups).
>
> More information here:
> http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/please-welcome-the-icbn-to-the-21st-century/
>
> -- Mike.