Both of these are important to the society because they were required to implement the PhyloCode. Other discussions at the meeting covered the problem of hybrids in rank-based and phylogenetic nomenclature, phyloinformatics, and teaching phylogenetic nomenclature.
The adoption of both is vital to society as it was a prerequisite for implementing the PhyloCode. Other topics discussed during the meeting included the problem of hybrids in classification systems, computational phylogenetics, and educating students about phylogenetic classification.