Ransom reviewed the history, especially the publication history of the Variorum, and counseled patience. Robinson offered cooperation of several kinds to the CCE project, including technical assistance, sharing of data, and perhaps coordination in scheduling publication of work. The CTP has some flexibility now, having just been awarded funding for five years by Britain's new Arts and Humanities Research Board, a granting agency now much more handsomely funded than the National Endowment for the Humanities. Minnis and Morse have been developing an organizational structure for the CCE, which will include an Advisory Board and an Editorial Board. Malcolm Andrew, Elizabeth Solopova, and Joseph Wittig are among the first to agree to serve on the Editorial Board.
More organizational work needs to be done.
To facilitate discussion at Kalamazoo, the co-chairs presented a set of talking points, with options. Discussion did not rigidly follow the talking points, but did indeed look forward to an electronic edition, not backward to the history of the Variorum. None of the options offered was intended to preclude eventual publication of CCE material in a Variorum volume. That editors in the CCE might choose what text to use for their commentary and notes seemed desirable to some participants, particularly those who have already completed textual work. Several found the idea of Riverside's Ellesmere-influenced CT text and its punctuation distasteful, and would like to use their own texts.