To Whom It May Concern,

We are writing asking for consideration towards changes to the wording of the "ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 STATEMENT OF SCOPE". Which is currently stated as:

Development and maintenance of ISO/IEC Standards, Technical Specifications, and Technical Reports related to the programming language C++.

The scope, as written, has served its purpose of directing the group squarely on advancing the language to exciting heights. But in being concise and direct it has circumscribed the tasks that WG21 can accomplish to problematic lows. In a time when the language is advancing, the community is struggling to manage the challenges of the complexity and variability of the tools, technologies, and systems that make C++ possible (i.e. the C++ ecosystem).

It is time we acknowledge that the continued success of C++ is tied not solely to the language. But that the C++ ecosystem and interoperability within that ecosystem are key to surmounting the challenges of further growth of the language for the benefit of its users.

As such we ask that the scope of C++ be explicitly adjusted to encourage development of standards to support the C++ language and ecosystem. A possible expanded scope:

Development and maintenance of ISO/IEC Standards, Technical Specifications, and Technical Reports related to the programming language C++, supporting tools, supporting technologies, and supporting systems.

Thank you for the opportunity to voice our concerns and for your consideration of this matter.

René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (US - The C++ Alliance)
— JTC1/SC22/WG21 Members 
Miro Knejp - C++ Consultant / Mentor / Engineer
Jayesh Badwaik - C++ Developer
Amin Yahyaabadi (@aminya) - Robotics Control Engineer
Ben Craig - NI.  Vice Chair of WG21 Library Evolution
Chad Royal - C++ Developer
Bret Brown - C++ Developer
Deniz Bahadir - C++ and CMake Software Engineer
Pato Sandana - C++ Developer
Erik Rosengren - C++ Developer
Hedayat Vatankhah - C++ Developer
Staffan Tjernstróm - C++ Developer. Finance Co-chair of WG21 SG 14
Rob Irving - C++ Developer, Host of CppCast
Harald Achitz - C++ Developer, build engineer, convenor Swedish JTC1/SC22 mirror
Salim Pamukcu - C++ Self Learning Student
— C++ Users