From listadm Fri Jul 26 15:41:51 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 PAA09718 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:41:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:43:28 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2027FD613@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3443 - National Body Activity Report from The Netherlands Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:43:17 -0400 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 N3443 TITLE: National Body Activity Report from The Netherlands DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-07-26 SOURCE: National Body of The Netherlands BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Contribution PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda Item 7.2 as well as Agenda Item 12.5. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def 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 document______________ National Activity Report from the Netherlands to the SC22 Plenary, Saariselka (Finland) 26-30 August 2002 The Dutch Programming Language Committee has currently 17 members and meets 2-3 times per year to discuss SC22 issues and, when necessary, relevant JTC1 documents. There is active participation from the Netherlands in the SC22 WGs on COBOL, Fortran, Ada, bindings, C, POSIX and C++. Other SC22 projects, such as APL, Modula-2, VDM, Prolog and Internationalization are followed on a more individual basis. Like in other National Bodies, the Dutch SC22 committee is suffering from funding problems: it proves very difficult to find participants (with supportive employers) who are willing to sacrifice time to review documents and come to meetings (this is not the hard part), but who are also willing and able to pay the required NNI fee. A solution to this problem is clearly not obvious, and there is a risk that (the solution of) this problem may have consequences for international participation of Dutch experts. As input on agenda item 12.5 (Procedures for submittal of contributions to SC22 by non-liaison organizations) and a (possible) discussion on issues around ISO/IEC 15897 and the procedures for the registration of cultural conventions we offer the following observations and proposals: + The CEN Technical Board (CEN BT) has, by adopting resolution BT 12/2002, decided (a.o.) - to withdraw ENV 12005:1996 - Procedures for European Registration of Cultural Elements; - to delete the workitem on the European default locale; and - to declare TC304 dormant. It is assumed that this also means that the registration authority, as defined in ENV 12005 ceases to exist. + In the light of the above resolutions, the Netherlands proposes - to withdraw the locales submitted by CEN TC304 (SC22 N3265); and - to instruct WG20 to re-address the comments of the Netherlands on the revision of ISO/IEC 15897 (see SC22 N3341) before the document is progressed to its next stage.