I'd just like you to know that the Haskell 98 report, for which you served as co-editor, played a very important role when I was teaching myself the language.
In fact, I still refer to it from time to time, both in the language and also the libraries section.
I think that keeping the CLC and HPC separate has a lot of advantages. Most important of all is keeping the work tractable by fanning it out. And the track record speaks for itself: progress is made.
While it made plenty of sense the last time round when it felt like squeezing blood from a stone assembling a quorum for HPC, wouldn't you say it's different this time around?
There's a buzz of enthusiasm in HPC self-nominations that signals a very healthy community, yes?
Some of that enthusiasm spills over into issues concerning the standard libraries.
Now given that FTP is a done deal, wouldn't you say that it deserves to be canonized in a report too? Just like Haskell 98?
I'm not saying to do away with the walls that separate the CLC and HPC. I'm saying that today presents a rare opportunity for a unified committee to work at a report good for the next 20 years.
Wouldn't it be such a waste to lose the moment?
*Precisely* the same issues will arise whether it's CLC or HPC. And the HPC is going to be jolly busy with language issues.