There is also no central authority other than a committee of decentralized interests that meet a couple of times a year to figure out how to keep their publishe

There is also no central authority other than a committee of decentralized interests that meet a couple of times a year to figure out how to keep their published document up to date. One of the tricks with C++ is that it isn't a product created ex cathedra by a single interest group with a focused purpose and provided for you like mother's milk; it's a generalized idea that emerged from a bazaar of interests and provided by a free market for whatever purpose you chose. It has evolved to fill a niche rather than be designed to reach a particular goal (eg. 'kill C++') or even designed to reach a vague goal ('fix all the problems with C'). There is no official mailing list because there is no official 'there' there. C++ is not an organization, or a corporation, or a guy in his mom's basement. It's an idea held (mostly somewhat) in common by a whole lot of people with otherwise no shared interests all over the world.