short. One widely implemented standard is [The
Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/),
or R5RS, published in 1998.
-A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) was ratified
-in 2007, but this has many detractors and has not been fully accepted in the
-community. ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
+A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
+was ratified in 2007, and this is implemented in Racket; but it also has many detractors and has not been fully
+accepted in the community. As a result, the Scheme language [may in the future split](http://scheme-reports.org/2009/position-statement.html)
+into a lean, minimal base, closer to
+R5RS Scheme, and a richer language like R6RS Scheme that standardizes many of the add-ons that programmers tend to build
+on top of the base.
+
* [Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)
* [Scheme Requests for Implementation](http://srfi.schemers.org/) (SRFI)
* The [Schematics Scheme Cookbook](http://schemecookbook.org/) is a collaborative effort to produce documentation and recipes for using Scheme for common tasks.