From listadm Fri Feb 8 21:36:35 2002 Received: from email1.ansi.org (email1.ansi.org [12.15.192.17]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA55913 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:36:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <1DZ1BNXW>; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:36:58 -0500 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B20110B098@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3370 - SC 22/WG 16 Convenor's Recommendation Regarding th e 2002 Periodic Review of ISO/IEC 13816 - Programming Language Lisp Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:36:54 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3370 TITLE: SC 22/WG 16 Convenor's Recommendation Regarding the 2002 Periodic Review of ISO/IEC 13816 - Programming Language Lisp DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-02-08 SOURCE: SC 22/WG 16 Convenor (P. Parquier) BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other document (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: 1.22.23 STATUS: Per SC 22 Kona Resolution 01-29, this recommendation is sent to SC 22 for approval to be sent to JTC 1 as the subcommittee recommendation. Please note that the official letter ballot on all standards out for review in 2002 is conducted at the JTC 1 level and the ballot closes 15 July 2002. The SC 22 review of this recommendation will be conducted as a default letter ballot. Unless the SC 22 Secretariat receives objection to the recommendation to confirm ISO/IEC 13816 by 2002-05-08, this recommendation will be sent to the JTC 1 Secretariat. ACTION IDENTIFIER: COM DUE DATE: 2002-05-08 DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open 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 title page, beginning of document_____________________ WG16's convener recommendation to SC22 is to recommend JTC1 to *CONFIRM* ISLISP standard. The rationale for this recommendation is the following: - The standard is currently in use: as far as we know at least two companies and a university performed independant implementions of the standard, and maintain them on a variety of platforms, from small footprint PDA (Pocket PC) to 64 bits machine like Alpha, Sparc HP-PA, Itanium - The user community is growing both in number of users, in number of countries, and in number of systems built on top of ISLISP standard implementations. - ISLISP (as defined by the standard) is taught at the university level. - The standard is consistent, there is no severe defect report, so it could also remain as is and be simply confirmed. - There is naturally room for clarification and rationale in the standard, so it would benefit from an explanatory report. WG16 is ready to undertake such a report. --------------------------------------------------------