From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Sep 4 22:28:45 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlYBsVTekvXHY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA21456 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:28:43 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA09011 ; for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:01:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:01:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: Document SC22 N2225 (Revised) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (NOTE: This is the Revised WG14 Convener's Report) ___________________________________________________________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2225 (revised) September 1996 TITLE: Revised WG14 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: Supersedes SC22 N2225 DOCUMENT TYPE: Convener's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for information or action, as applicable. THIS CONVENER'S REPORT AND THE ISSUES NOTED IN THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS THEREOF WILL BE HANDLED UNDER AGENDA ITEMS 8.7, 8.7.1 AND 8.7.2 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Revised Convener's Report to SC22 WG14 (Programming language C) 28 August 1996 Project number: 22.20.02 WG14 has met three time in the past year: Oct 1995 Nashua, NH Feb 1996 Los Anglese, CA Jun 1996 Amsterdam, NL Our next scheduled meetings are: Oct 1996 Toronto, ON Feb 1997 Kona, HI Jun 1997 Sydney, NSW All our meetings are collocated with X3J11. X3J11 is conducting the revision of the C Standard as an I type project, this insures the ISO/IEC JCT 1 balloting procedures will be used in the revision process. WG14 received a CEN/TC304 informational report from the SC22 cooperation officer to CEN/TC304 at the Amsterdam meeting, WG14 document N577. The "Charter for the Revision of the C Standard" was provided to the SC22 for informational purposes. Our major activity for the past two years has been the review and revision of ISO/IEC 9899:1990, the C Standard. Currently, we still expect to determine the scope of a revised draft C Standard by the end of 1996, as we reported last year. We should be in a position to request balloting of a Committee Draft by the end of 1997. We are merging all Technical Corrigenda into the draft C Standard as we proceed. In the past year, WG14 has published responses to Defect Reports #060 through #141. They have been gathered into Record of Responses 2 (RR2), which lists all the DRs and our responses, both normative and otherwise. Technical Corrigendum 2 (TC2) is a normative document that lists just the corrections to the C Standard as a results of these responses. Both documents were within the past year by SC22. WG14 has since received additional Defect Reports #142 through #168. The committee has developed preliminary responses for nearly all these DRs, but would prefer not to publish an additional RR or TC in the immediate future, given the status of the revision of the C Standard, as described above. Our Defect Report log is up to date. WG14 has made good progress on developing a Web site, in accordance with directions passed down from SC22. We have a restricted access ftp site, available under password control only to committee members, that serves as a repository for documents private to the committee. We would like, however, to move certain documents from the private to the public area, specifically the two Technical Corrigenda published by ISO. We ask SC22 to secure the necessary permissions for us to do so. Our rationale is as follows: Many customers of the C Standard have had difficulty discovering and/or obtaining the TCs. They would be well served to have the exact text of the TCs publicly available. Like software patches that are publicly available (but the full software is not), these TCs contain only the changes, not the entire C Standard. Thus, they should cause no revenue loss with regard to sales of the entire test. Already, some ISO members distribute these TCs free of charge. Thus, freely distributing the TCs should al cause little or no revenue loss. In summary, we fell the good far outweighs any bad effects of putting the TCs on our public Web site, and thereby request permission to do so. Finally, Bill Plauger has tendered his resignation as the Convener of WG14. X3J11 has endorsed a candidate for Convener. An Accelerated JTC 1 TAG Letter Ballot to endorse John Benito as the U.S. Candidate for Convener of JTC 1/SC 22/WG14 will close on September 19, 1996. ____________________________end of document SC22 N2225 (revised) _________