From listadm Mon Jul 29 18:55:30 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 SAA27760 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:55:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:57:12 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2027FD63F@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3455 - National Body Activity Report of the United States Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:57:11 -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 N3455 TITLE: National Body Activity Report of the United States DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-07-29 SOURCE: US National Body BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Contribution PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document was received by the July 26 deadline, so it will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda Item 7.2. 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 for 2001-2002 United States of America, National Member Body Prepared for JTC1/SC22 Plenary in Finland, August 2002 Doc: CT22-N2002-05 Date: 2002-07-25 The U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to SC22 is INCITS/CT22. The U.S. has continued to be active in many of SC22's Working Groups. In particular, the activities of the following groups are reported here: Ada: * For SC22/WG9, the U.S. TAG is DDC-I, Inc. * Completed Projects 1. 22.10.01 -- IS 8652:1995 Programming Languages: Ada and ISO/IEC 8652:1995/Cor.1:2001 Technical Corrigendum. The U.S. TAG is now participating in updating the standard by developing an Amendment with completion anticipated in 2005. 2. 22.15942 -- TR 15942 Guidance for the use of the Ada Programming Language in High Integrity Systems. The U.S. TAG recommended approval for making this standard freely available on an appropriate web site. The TAG is also participating in the maintenance of this standard. * Projects Underway 1. The U.S. TAG requested the subdivision of project ISO/IEC 8652:1995 in accordance with subclause 14.5 of the JTC1 Directives in order to prepare amendments to ISO/IEC 8652. 2. The U.S. TAG is participating in the development of an Amendment to ISO/IEC 652:1995. The Amendment would be completed circa 2005 and would make small changes to the Ada Language Specification. 3. The U.S. TAG is developing a guide on the use of the "Ravenscar Profile." * The U.S. TAG supplies support to the three WG 9 working groups - Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG), Annex H Rapporteur Group (HRG), ASIS Rapporteur Group. * Participation with Other Organizations 1. Members of the U.S. TAG participate in the Special Interest Group on Ada (SIG) of the Association for Computing Machinery and Ada-Europe. SIGAda is considering whether it should request Category C liaison with WG 9. 2. There is some representation by the U.S. TAG in the Ada Resource Association (ARA). 3. Members of the U.S. TAG participated in the International Real-Time Ada Working Group in April 2002. C: * For SC22/WG14, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J11. * Continued providing most of the manpower for maintaining ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899:1999. * J11 assisted in the development of TR (Type 3) on C Extensions to Support Embedded Processors, which is currently out for balloting. * J11 held co-located meetings with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 on the following dates: October 15-19, 2001 Redmond, Washington, USA; April 15-19, 2002 Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. * J11 assisted in the preparation of a new work item to produce a Type 2 TR on Specification for Additional Character Data Types to the Programming Language C C++: * For SC22/WG21, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J16. * The primary work of the committee during year 2001 was processing Defect Reports, continuing work on the study of efficient use and implementation of C++, and creation of a proposal for a new TR on extensions to the C++ standard library. * Final drafts of Defect Report resolutions for many issues were completed. The Project Editor was directed to use those resolutions in creating a Technical Corrigendum to be forwarded to ISO in 2002. * In the interest of closer coordination with the C committee (J11), J16 has adjusted its meeting schedule so that one meeting per year is at the same time and location as the J11 meeting. It is in the interests of both committees to see that C and C++ diverge as little as possible. * J16 continues to hold co-located meetings with WG21. COBOL: * For SC22/WG4, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J4. J4 is responsible for the development of the U.S. and international standards for COBOL (ANSI X3.23-1985, ISO 1989); the development of related amendments, technical reports, and technical corrigenda; and the processing of related defect reports. * Based on recommendations from J4 and INCITS, ANSI reaffirmed ANSI X3.23-1985 and its amendments. * J4 analyzed comments on the FCD ballot on the revision to ANSI X3.23-1985 (ISO/IEC 1989:1985) and developed recommendations for WG4's consideration in ballot resolution at the November 2001 WG4 meeting. J4 completed the associated changes directed at that meeting and submitted a document that is the subject of an ISO/IEC FDIS ballot that closes 4 September 2002. * Features included in the COBOL revision are cultural adaptability, object orientation, enhanced inter-operability with other programming languages, new data types (bit, floating point, native binary, pointers), strong typing, enhanced portability of arithmetic, support for multiple-octet coded character sets, a screen handling facility, data validation support, conditional compilation, exception handling, storage allocation support, and file sharing with record locking. * J4 developed PDTR 19755, Object Finalization for Programming Language COBOL, as requested by SC22. This TR is the subject of an SC22 concurrent registration and approval ballot that closes 7 September 2002. * J4 anticipates future work to include defect handling for the new standard; development of O-O class library technical reports for collection classes and XML support; and preliminary planning for the next revision. Fortran: * For SC22/WG5, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J3. * Published Corrigendum 2 to Fortran 95. * Is now completing the CD of Fortran 02. * Expect that the joint meeting with WG5 in August will result in a draft for public comment. Language Independent Datatypes: * For part of SC22/WG11's work, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/L8. * Attended the 2001 WG11 meeting. * The specification ISO/IEC 11404 Language Independent Datatypes is being revised. A roadmap for this revision will be distributed to SC22 shortly. It is remarkable that many organizations outside SC22 (like SC32 - Data management and Interchange, and the W3C consortium) are interested in this specification. L8 contributed a working draft of the revision of 11404. Pascal: * For SC22/WG2, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J9. * In response to the condition that there were two U.S. standards for Extended Pascal, the committee recommended that the U.S. withdraw X3.160:1990 Programming Language Extended PASCAL (ANSI/IEEE 770/X3.160-1989) in favor of ANSI/ISO/IEC 10206:1991[1999] - Information Technology - Programming languages - Extended Pascal. * J9 is in Maintenance Mode. It is prepared to answer interpretation questions on the Pascal and Extended Pascal standards, but has not received any in the last year. PL/I: * For SC22/WG7, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J1. * During the last year there were no meetings, no requests for clarification requests, and no substantive actions. POSIX * The U.S. TAG to WG15 is held by IEEE * The single, unified POSIX specification (IEEE/WG15/Open Group, also known as the Austin Group Specification) has been completed. It also completed balloting in IEEE and Open Group and has entered FDIS ballot in JTC 1. It is expected to be an approved standard before the year is out. * There have been no meetings of WG15 or the U.S. since February 2001. With the successful completion of the Austin Group specification work and ballot, consideration is being given to disbanding the U.S. TAG upon successful completion of the current ballot. Prolog: * For SC22/WG17, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/J17. * The U.S. is contributing to WG17 subgroups working on proposals to standardize Definite clause grammars, foreign language interface and global variables. * It is worth noting that the international Prolog community is showing renewed interest in Prolog standardization. Internationalization: * For SC22/WG20, the U.S. TAG is INCITS/L2. * Create the fourth edition of ISO/IEC TR 10176 - Guide for the development of programming language standards. This effort is necessary to specify which characters from the growing repertoire of ISO/IEC 10646 can be used as identifiers in programming languages. The third edition of TR 10176 has been published. * Amend ISO/IEC 14651 - International string ordering: L2 contributed substantially to the development of the amendment #1 by providing the common template table. L2 plans to provide input to the future amendments, which are needed to deal with the repertoire extensions of ISO/IEC 10646, aka Unicode. Often the collation rules lag slightly behind the repertoire (which is the nature of collation research). * Comment on ISO/IEC 14652 - Specification method for cultural conventions: L2 provided extensive comments on the DTR2 ballot and more technical advice during the meetings. The U.S. insisted that sections of the TR be clearly marked as "controversial" whenever WG20 could not reach consensus. The final document will have many such sections when it is published. * Contribution to IS 15897 - Registration of cultural elements: EN 12005 was fast-tracked as ISO/IEC 15897 and assigned to WG20 for maintenance. L2 provided an extensive contribution to improve the registration and review process to ensure the quality of individual submission. This work will show up in the next revision of 15897. * TR 15435 - APIs for Internationalization: Technical comments from the L2 experts were instrumental to the withdrawal of this controversial project. * Unicode in programming languages. In February of 2002, L2 hosted a session with experts, conveners, and chairs from programming language standardization committees to find common solutions for the use of the Universal Character Set in programming languages. A Unicode data type is a possible solution - L2 will provide an expert to the ad-hoc session on this subject at the SC22 plenary in Finland, August 2002.