From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Sep 3 19:07:08 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA24746 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:07:01 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA10163 ; for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 13:06:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 13:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: Document SC22 N2261 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 N2261 September 1996 TITLE: WG16 Convener'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: Convener's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for action. THIS CONVENER'S REPORT WILL BE CONSIDERED UNDER AGENDA ITEM 8.9 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 _________________________________________________________________________ WG16 CONVENER'S REPORT FOR THE SEPTEMBER 1996 JTC 1/SC22 PLENARY Summary ======= WG16 is responsible for the single project 22.23, producing an international standard for Lisp. During 1995-1996, WG16 moved according to the plan and DIS-13816 ballot will end just before London SC22 plenary. Participation ============= Six nations have been regularly participating to the efforts for standardization: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United States of America. Convenorship ============ After accepting French offer (resolution 95-26), SC22 has appointed Pierre Parquier as convener of WG16 (SC22/N2133). Progress in Ballots =================== Last SC22 plenary directed for a second CD ballot, and for a DIS ballot April 1996 (resolution 95-27). The 2nd CD-13816 ballot (SC22/N1976) resulted in a unanimous approval with comments, most of which were approved (disposition of comments in SC22/N2095). The DIS-13816 ballot is underway, to be completed just before plenary (1996-09-23). During this ballot, there has been some confusion on the IS ballot title: - The title of Project 22.23 is "Information Technology -- Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces -- Programming Language Lisp". - During its first meeting (1988-02-25), WG16 decided to name the resulting dialect "ISLISP" (minutes in SC22WG16N12). - Every draft issued by WG16 has been labeled and refers to "ISLISP". - The title on SC22 cover page for 1st CD ballot (SC22/N1656) is "... -- Programming Language ISLISP". - The title on SC22 cover page for 2nd CD ballot (SC22/N1976) is "... -- Programming Language Lisp", a change which apparently went unnotticed. - The title on JTC1 cover page for DIS ballot is "... -- LISP". This time WG16 noticed this is not the name of the Lisp dialect standardized. SC22 secretariate suggested NBs to comment on the title in their vote on DIS-13816. Indeed, several votes are expected to request for a change of standard title to ISLISP. In this case, WG16 is likely to issue a disposition of comment accepting that request. WG16 is very gratefull to SC22 secretariate who extensively explored how to fixed this issue. WG16 meetings ============= 14th meeting: - in Paris (France), March 1996 - main focus: disposition of comments on 2CD ballot, plan for DIS ballot - 6 NBs represented - resolutions is SC22/N2096 15th meeting: - in Bath (United Kingdom), November 1996 - main focus: disposition of comments on DIS ballot, plan for IS ballot - about 5 NBs expected - venue is SC22/N2217 WWW home page for SC22/WG16 =========================== Home page still under construction. Besides, we've been using over the passed year the WWW for maintenance of the venue notice (http://www.ilog.fr/WG16). _________________________end of document SC22 N2261 _____________________