From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Mar 25 23:08:26 1997 Received: from access1.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access1.digex.net [205.197.245.192]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA01387 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:08:24 +0100 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA05233 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:08:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:08:19 -0500 (EST) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2442 - TC1 to IS 10279 - Basic - Reconsideration Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (Please note that this document contains an action item for the August 1997 SC22 Plenary.) ________________beginning of title page ____________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2442 March 1997 TITLE: Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 10279:1991 - Programming Language Basic - Reconsideration SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: JTC 1.22.11 STATUS: Please note that this will be an agenda item for the August 1997 SC22 Plenary CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N1853, N1987 DOCUMENT TYPE: N/A ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies and HODs for discussion at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net ____________________end of title page; beginning of text _________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) TO: P and L Members, Working Group Conveners and Heads of Delegation SUBJECT: Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 10279:1991 - Programming Language Full Basic As directed by SC22 at its 1996 Plenary, Mr. Tom Kurtz, Project Editor of Basic, prepared subject Technical Corrigendum for publication and I forwarded it to ISO/IEC ITTF. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Kurtz received a marked up copy from the ISO CS with several minor formatting changes and a request that all references in the Technical Corrigendum be changed to refer to ISO/IEC 10279. (They currently reference ANSI X3.113-1987.) This latter request to change references has caused some difficulty given the following short history: American Standards Committee X3 published a set of interpretations on Basic and it was noted that some of the interpretations were really changes to ANSI X3.113-1987 as they suggested modified text. SC22 asked Mr. Kurtz to make a few modifications to the US document and produce a Technical Corrigendum for ISO/IEC 10279. It should be noted that ISO/IEC 10279 refers to ANSI X3.113 for its technical content and includes revised clauses dealing only with conformance as SC22 desired to allow both ANSI X3.113 and ECMA 116 to conform. Since ISO/IEC 10279 does not contain the technical content of Programming Language Full Basic, it is not possible to change all the references in the Technical Corrigendum to refer to ISO/IEC 10279 since the changes are to the technical content contained only in ANSI X3.113. I contacted Mr. Keith Brannon at ISO/IEC ITTF in this regard and he responded that the ISO/IEC standing policy is that they cannot publish a Technical Corrigendum to an equivalent ANSI standard; the Corrigendum must be to the ISO/IEC version. After discussing this issue with Mr. Robert Follett, SC22 Chairman, I responded to Mr. Brannon that, in view of this standing policy, I felt that SC22 should reexamine its approval of the Technical Corrigendum and asked that the publication of this Technical Corrigendum be held in abeyance until I contacted him following the SC22 Plenary in August 1997. In summary: IS 10279 refers to ANSI X3.113 for its technical content. IS 10279 only contains revised clauses dealing with conformance. The TC contains no corrections to the revised conformance clauses; all the corrections are to ANSI X3.113. The reexamination of this issue by SC22 will be an agenda item for the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. Sincerely WILLIAM C. RINEHULS Secretariat, JTC 1/SC22 _______________________-end of SC22 N2442 ______________________