From listadm Fri Jul 26 15:42:58 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 PAA09759 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:42:57 +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 09:44:39 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2027FD614@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3444 - Liaison Report from JTC 1/SC 7 to SC 22 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:44:33 -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 N3298 TITLE: Liaison Report from JTC 1/SC 7 to SC 22 DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-07-26 SOURCE: Liaison Officer to JTC 1/SC 7 (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 7.5.2. 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 James W. Moore Liaison from SC22 to SC7 and v.v. 15 July 2002 I was appointed to the liaison position in September 1999 when it appeared that the work programmes of SC22 and SC7 might overlap with poor consequences. The appearance of overlap was found to result from a misunderstanding and was easily resolved. Since then, there has been little need for active liaison between the two subcommittees. One recent event, though, suggests that an official communication from SC22 to SC7 might be helpful. SC7 has admitted the IEEE Computer Society into a Category A liaison arrangement. Under the terms of the arrangement, SC7 and IEEE CS will cooperate in the "coordinated adoption" of selected standards so that both organizations approve identically worded standards. Of course, for approximately 15 years, SC22/WG15 has cooperated with IEEE CS with a similar goal under the terms of WG15 N 733. As the liaison between the two subcommittees, I believe that it would be helpful if SC22 were to officially advise SC7 of its success using this mechanism. Therefore, I propose the following resolution for consideration at the plenary meeting of SC22: "JTC1/SC22 advises JTC1/SC7 of its success in cooperating with the IEEE Computer Society in the coordinated adoption of identically worded standards. For more than ten years, SC22/WG15 and IEEE-CS have cooperated by applying a procedure intended to coordinate the adoption processes of the two organizations. (The most recent version of this procedure is WG15 N 733.) Using this procedure, the famous POSIX standards are identical in both ISO/IEC and in IEEE."