From mdeane@ANSI.org Tue Aug 28 18:31:02 2001 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6] (may be forged)) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA01339 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:31:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:31:13 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B20110A937@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3298 - Liaison Report from JTC 1/SC 7 to SC 22 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:31:08 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3298 TITLE: Liaison Report from JTC 1/SC 7 to SC 22 DATE ASSIGNED: 2001-08-28 SOURCE: Liaison Officer to JTC 1/SC 2 (J. Moore) BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Liaison Contribution PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: This document will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda Item 7.4.2 pending the approval of its addition to the agenda. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org _______end of cover page, beginning of report____________ Liaison Report: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Prepared by Jim Moore, SC22 Liaison Officer to SC7 26 August 2001 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 recently conducted its annual plenary meeting 14-18 May 2001 in Nagoya, Japan. Its terms of reference are: "Standardization of processes, supporting tools and supporting technologies for the engineering of software products and systems." On occasion, there has been some confusion regarding a perceived overlap of activity between SC7 and SC22. SC7 performs work on standards related to the engineering of information technology (IT) systems. SC22 performs work on system interfaces, where system is used in the context of "operating system" or "system programming." There is no actual overlap in the work of the two subcommittees. Important results of the plenary meeting include the following: - SC7 continues to expand its work on software product quality characteristics. It is balloting new work item related to the 9126 series of standards. - SC7 is balloting a new work item for a Software Asset Management process. This work will address how enterprises handle licenses for proprietary software. - SC7 continues its cooperation with the project to develop a Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. It will conduct a ballot to adopt the Trial Use Version of the Guide as a Type 3 Technical Report. Further coordination is anticipated. - SC7 plans a coordinated revision of ISO/IEC 12207, (draft) ISO/IEC 15288, and (draft) ISO/IEC 9000-3 to effect a consolidated process set spanning the life cycle of both systems and software with appropriate incorporation of quality management requirements. - SC7 continues to emphasize that its working groups should broaden their work from software engineering to encompass the engineering of IT systems. --