2 
( 
>
F We believe that the process described above will occur fairly quickly.G The TDS committee spans a wide range of interests in the TeX community. = Consequently, we believe that most of the key issues involved I in defining a workable TDS definition have been covered, often in detail.
7 Further, a number of TeX developers have been consulted L about implementation issues, and have been trying out suggested TDS formats.A Thus, we hope for few surprises as implementation gets under way.
> Finally, there are several (current or prospective) publishers of TeX-based CD-ROMs. 9 These publishers are highly motivated to work out details B of TDS implementation, and their products will provide inexpensive@ and convenient ways for experimentally-minded TeX administrators to try out the TDS.
K Efforts are under way to set up a ``TDS Registry'' that will coordinate the D assignment of TDS-compliant directory names and provide a definitive1 database of TDS-compliant software distributions.