+The current NLnet funding to date has allowed Libre-SOC to develop
+one of the most powerful Scalable Vector ISAs in the world.
+The 25-year-old Power ISA, developed and curated by IBM, was
+transferred to the OpenPOWER Foundation, and is the basis on
+which, with NLnet EU funding, we have based
+Simple-V, the Draft Scalable Vector Extension.
+
+Simple-V *needs* to be submitted to the OPF ISA Working Group,
+for formal discussion and inclusion. Given that it is 380
+pages we expect this to be done carefully and incrementally.
+https://ftp.libre-soc.org/simple_v_spec.pdf
+
+However the
+process of submitting RFCs (Requests For Change), at the time of writing,
+still has not been publicly announced and opened up. We expect it
+to be very soon, but obviously could not begin any RFC Submission
+as part of earlier NLnet funding. The timing is now right.
+
+We will become publicly informed very shortly of the procedures but anticipate
+it to include development and submission of Compliance Test Suites
+(already partly covered by Simple-V unit tests, kindly funded by NLnet)
+as well as ongoing work on the Simulator.