From lrajchel@ANSI.org Sun Aug 27 18:03:22 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 SAA31608; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:03:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lrajchel@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:02:25 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2151625@email1.ansi.org> From: Lisa Rajchel To: "'sc22info@dkuug.dk'" Cc: "'Simonsen, Keld'" Subject: SC 22 N 3155 - National Activity Report of The Netherlands to the Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, September 12-15, 2000 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:02:13 -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 N3155 TITLE: National Activity Report of The Netherlands to the Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, September 12-15, 2000 DATE ASSIGNED: 2000-08-27 SOURCE: National Body of The Netherlands BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Activity Report PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document will be discussed under Agenda Item 7.2.5 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 _____________________end of title page______________ National Activity Report from the Netherlands to the SC22 Plenary, Nara (Japan) 12-15 September 2000 The Dutch Programming Language Committee has currently 14 members and meets 2-3 times per year to discuss SC22 issues and, when necessary, relevant JTC1 documents. There is active participation from the Netherlands in the SC22 WGs on COBOL, Fortran, Ada, bindings, C, Modula-2, POSIX and C++. Other SC22 projects, such as APL, VDM, Prolog and Internationalization are followed on a more individual basis. Like in other National Bodies, the Dutch SC22 committee is suffering from funding problems: it proves very difficult to find participants (with supportive employers) who are willing to sacrifice time to review documents and come to meetings (this is not the hard part), but who are also willing and able to pay the required NNI fee. A solution to this problem is clearly not obvious, and there is a risk that (the solution of) this problem may have consequences for international participation of Dutch experts. In the past period, the handling of FCD 14651 (International String Ordering) and the progression of this document to FDIS has caused some unease (to put it mildly) within our committee. Several NO votes and lengthy comments were issued during the FCD 14651 ballot, resulting in extensive changes in the document. In our opinion this implied that the document was not yet ready for FDIS ballot. Still, WG20 recommended progression to the FDIS stage, a recommendation that was adopted by the SC22 Secretariat. The Dutch SC22 committee found this highly unsatisfactory. In an attempt to prevent similar situations to occur in the future, the Netherlands will suggest in a separate document some refinements to the SC22 internal procedures. It is proposed to discuss this document at the SC22 Plenary in September 2000. W. F. Wakker, Chairman August 2000