Les,
Having it in an RFC would allow us to submit it to JTC1 on the fast track.Being one of a small group of folks who actively worked on getting the most recent ISO 10589 update (2002) out I think I can authoritatively (and hopefully non-offensively) chuckle at this statement. Let's save our efforts for something more substantive and settle for consistency. Folks have lived with the overloaded name for 20+ years - I don't see any pressing need to change this.
My statement was more procedural than about priorities. I agree that we can live with the overloading. However, if Donald and other folks feel sufficiently strongly that they want to fix this, it cannot hurt to submit it.
Further, over time there are likely to be other updates to 10589, even if only editorial. Those would seem to be an opportunity.
Tony