Dear Michael and Chip, Hopefully we are now converging. The sentence on ILC is a bit of a mouthful. It mixes three different and important points while neglecting to tell the reader that the machine would collide electrons and positrons. Suggest splitting it as follows. Not sure this suggestion is necessarily the best. I think it should say detectors somewhere - but that request from me that you incorporated ... has not made the current sentence any more digestible. "A global effort has now completed the technical design of the International Linear Collider (ILC) accelerator and detectors that will provide these capabilities." => "A global effort has now completed the technical design of the International Linear Collider (ILC). This accelerator and its detectors will provide these physics capabilities with e+e- collisions." (or perhaps one could use a ; or : and make it one sentence). I think it is important to make it clear that the basic ILC program is e+e-. There is also the possibility of e-e-, e- gamma, and gamma gamma. Those are not excluded - but e+e- is essential and sufficient for the discussion here. regards Graham ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the SNOWMASS-EF list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SNOWMASS-EF&A=1