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FWe believe that the process described above will occur fairly quickly.GThe TDS committee spans a wide range of interests in the TeX community.=Consequently, we believe that most of the key issues involvedIin defining a workable TDS definition have been covered, often in detail.

7Further, a number of TeX developers have been consultedLabout implementation issues, and have been trying out suggested TDS formats.AThus, we hope for few surprises as implementation gets under way.

>Finally, there are several (current or prospective) publishersof TeX-based CD-ROMs.9These publishers are highly motivated to work out detailsBof TDS implementation, and their products will provide inexpensive@and convenient ways for experimentally-minded TeX administratorsto try out the TDS.

KEfforts are under way to set up a ``TDS Registry'' that will coordinate theDassignment of TDS-compliant directory names and provide a definitive1database of TDS-compliant software distributions.