From lrajchel@ANSI.org Thu Aug 10 22:14:48 2000 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA68664; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:14:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lrajchel@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:13:50 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2151583@email1.ansi.org> From: Lisa Rajchel To: "'sc22info@dkuug.dk'" Cc: "'Simonsen, Keld'" Subject: SC 22 N 3140 - SC 22/WG 17 Business Plan/Convener's Report Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:13:49 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) _____________________beginning of title page ____________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3140 TITLE: SC 22/WG 17 Business Plan/Convener's Report DATE ASSIGNED: 2000-08-10 SOURCE: J. Hodgson, Convener, SC 22/WG 17 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other (Defined) PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document will be discussed under Agenda Item 8.10 at the JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary Meeting. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI to SC22 Member Bodies DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Lisa Rajchel ANSI 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4932 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: lrajchel@ansi.org Business Plan and Convener's Report JTC1/SC22/WG17 - Programming Language Prolog 2000/08/03 Period Covered: September 1999 - August 2000 Submitted by: Jonathan Hodgson Convener, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 17 St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia. PA 19131 USA Email: jhodgson@sju.edu 1. Management Summary 1.1 JTC1/SC22/WG17 Statement of Scope Development and maintenance of ISO/IEC standards related to programming language Prolog 1.2 Project Report 1.2.1 Completed Projects ISO/IEC 13211-2. Programming language Prolog-part 2 Modules 1.2.2 Projects Underway Decision on the reaffirmation/revision of ISO/IEC 13211-1 Programming language Prolog-part 1 General core is under ballot by JTC1 Tag. 1.2.3 Canceled Projects None 1.3 Cooperation and Competition 2. Period Review 2.1 Market Requirements Prolog is a niche language. It is extensively used by a small number of users mainly for applications in configuration, constraint handling and natural language. It is taught in a significant number of universities 2.2 Achievements WG17 completed technical work to address FCD comments and the revised document was approved in March 2000 with publication following in May 2000 2.3 Resources WG17 meets as needed, usually once a year, and works by electronic correspondence between meetings. Four countries are participating in meetings: Germany, Japan, the UK, and the USA. 3. Focus Next Work Period WG17 awaits the results of national bodies comments on the reaffirmation/revision question. 3.1 Deliverables None anticipated. 3.2 Strategies None. 3.2.1 Risks WG17 suffers form a decline in interest in supporting standardization efforts. 3.2.2 Opportunities Options for future work were discussed at an open meeting held during the Practical Application of Prolog and Constraints programming in London April 1999. Although interest was expressed in the possibility of standardizing interfaces to libraries for internet access and constraints subsequent activities indicate that the support necessary to pursue this is unlikely to be forthcoming. 3.3 Work Program Priorities None. 4. Other Items This section includes items that are part of the Convener's Report, but not part of the Business Plan. WG17 needs to evaluate the cost/benefits of continuing to operate. 4.1 Action Requests at the Forthcoming Plenary None. 4.2 Schedule None. 4.3 WG17 Meetings 4.3.1 Recent Meetings None. 4.3.2 Future Meetings None planned