Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2020 um 20:41 Uhr
Von: "Jaime Headden" <jaimeheadden@gmail.com>
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2. Alternatively, the publication "Scientific Reports" can do the work
for the authors within and create ICZN conforming post-publication
resources and submissions to Zoobank for every taxon so proposed, and
then *require adherence to the ICZN's rules regarding use of Zoobank
IDs* in order to be validly published, and then create a paper (or
other physical medium) repository for *each* taxon so affected.
If Sci. Rep. did the work for the authors – either by creating new publications and registering them properly, or by creating paper repositories for the existing papers –, the date of publication of the names in question would be 2020 at the earliest, despite the publications claiming otherwise. And if Sci. Rep. created new publications, members of Sci. Rep. staff (who'd need to disclose their names) would become the authors of those names. As the rules stand now, there is no way to make the existing descriptions retroactively available with the original years of publication; that would only be possible under your solution 1, to change the rules, which I'll try to get the Commission to do.
CDs (or "optical discs" in general) are no longer allowed as a publication medium since 2013, only paper and the Internet. Check out
the amended Article 8.4.
Now, all of this requires the ICZN to be followed. It is possible it
is not necessary for the ICZN to be followed. The ICZN is, in many
ways, lingering in the 19th century, and it serves us well to look
towards the future. With looming publication of "PhyloCode" and its
rules, we can instead shift towards PhyloCode compliance rather than
ICZN, which is more permissive of digital media as publications.
The PhyloCode – which is going to be formally published this year;
join the society! – will not be retroactive. And no, the PhyloCode will not be more permissive of digital media. It will, further,
require registration for absolutely all names, no matter where they're published; registration of ICZN names is currently optional if they're published on paper.