From lrajchel@ANSI.org Wed Sep 6 22:21:34 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 WAA72523; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:21:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lrajchel@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:20:40 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B21516B6@email1.ansi.org> From: Lisa Rajchel To: "'sc22info@dkuug.dk'" Cc: "'Simonsen, Keld'" Subject: SC 22 N 3173 - National Activity Report of Germany to the Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, September 12-15, 2000 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:20:39 -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 N3173 TITLE: National Activity Report of Germany to the Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, September 12-15, 2000 DATE ASSIGNED: 2000-09-06 SOURCE: National Body of Germany BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Activity Report PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document will be discussed under Agenda Item 7.2.8 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 Report of Germany First of all I wish to apologize that our national report comes late, will be very short and not presented by myself due to medical circumstances. (I will have to trust my colleagues Monday when they operate my knee which I have hurt while in holidays) Personally I am very sorry that I cannot attend the SC22-plenary session and had to cancel flight and hotel reservations due to "force majeure". I am glad and grateful that Mr. Augustin is able to represent Germany. There is not much to report from NI 22. It is business as usual exept for two good news: (1) We do participate (again) in WG10 (2) We do participate (again) in WG20 In an internal debate about the chances of DIN and standardisation in the future we asked the board of directors not only to concentrate on market, industry and short term reactions but instead to seek cooperation with customer organisations, governmental and public agencies with their interest to guarantee the value of software investment. However, the actual trend and ressource allocation goes into another direction ... In November I will resign and pass on the burden to my successor who accepted the nomination already. Until then we will have published our comparison of the OO-concepts in different languages in the web. (It is almost completed thanks to the chairmen of the different language groups) Again: I am sorry that I am unable to say good by to you all personally. It has been a very interesting experience for me to participate in SC22 and I thank you for all that I was allowed to learn from you - officially and inofficially. Please help my successor as you have helped me! When I wake up from anaesthesia Monday evening (hopefully!) I will try to imagine how John Hill opens the SC22 plenary meeting and send my very best wishes. Wolfgang Giere Ex-HoD Germany Prof.Dr.med.Wolfgang Giere Zentrum der Medizinischen Informatik Center of Medical Informatics Klinikum der J.W.Goethe-Universitaet J.W.Goethe Univ Med Ctr. D 60590 Frankfurt am Main tel +49 69 6301 5695, fax ...6777 email: W.Giere@add.uni-frankfurt.de www.klinik.uni-frankfurt.de/Zinfo.htm