From rinehuls@access.digex.net Fri Aug 30 18:32:51 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA23212 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 18:32:47 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA18087 ; for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:32:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:32:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: Document SC22 N2258 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N 2258 September 1996 TITLE: ISO/IEC 14977 Project Editor's Report for the September 1996 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: N/A CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Project Editor's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for action or information, as applicable. THIS PROJECT EDITOR'S REPORT AND THE ISSUE CONTAINED THEREIN WILL BE CONSIDERED UNDER AGENDA ITEM 11.7 AT THE SEPTEMBER 1996 JTC 1/SC22 PLENARY Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net __________________________________________________________________________ 1996 REPORT TO ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 from ISO/IEC 14977 PROJECT EDITOR INTRODUCTION ISO/IEC 14977 (Syntactic Metalanguage Extended BNF) has been adopted under the ``fast track'' process and is to be published shortly. It will then pass into the care of SC22. SC22 needs to consider and allocate responsibility for subsequent maintenance of Extended BNF. This simple formal language is unlikely to require significant resources, so to create a new Working Group would probably impose unnecessary bureaucracy. I therefore suggest that WG19 (Formal Languages) should be made responsible for its maintenance. UK (the originators of the standard) and Derek Andrews (WG19 convener) have informally approved this suggestion, and it is hoped that WG19 will give formal approval at its meeting on 20 September 1996. MEETINGS IN 1995-96 All work was performed by e-mail and correspondence; no meetings were therefore required or held. PROGRESS IN 1995-96 The timetable (see N2103) for producing a `Disposition of Comments' report (see N2178) and revising the standard slipped by five weeks. The camera-ready copy will posted to ISO Central Secretariat in Geneva in the middle of August 1996. DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR SC22 SC22, recognizing that ISO/IEC 14977 (Extended BNF) is a (simple) formal language, allocates responsibility for future maintenance of this standard to WG19 (Formal Languages). R S Scowen (ISO/IEC 14977 project editor) 9 Birchwood Grove, Hampton, Middlesex United Kingdom TW12 3DU E-mail: rss@cise.npl.co.uk 14 August 1996 _____________________________ end of document SC22 N2258 ________________