Proposed resolution (December, 2012):

Change 9.5.5 [dcl.init.list] paragraph 3 as follows:

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• Otherwise, if T is a reference type, a prvalue temporary of the type referenced by T is list-initialized copy-list-initialized or direct-list-initialized, depending on the kind of initialization for the reference, and the reference is bound to that temporary. [Note: As usual...

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One of the bullets in 9.5.5 [dcl.init.list] paragraph 3 reads,

Otherwise, if T is a reference type, a prvalue temporary of the type referenced by T is list-initialized, and the reference is bound to that temporary.

This does not say whether the initialization of the temporary is direct-list-initialization, copy-list-initialization, or the same kind of list-initialization as the top-level initialization.

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