Subject: N 3982-ECMA Liaison Report to SC 22

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:49:03 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)
 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3982
 
TITLE:
ECMA Liaison Report to SC 22

DATE ASSIGNED:
2005-09-30
 
SOURCE:
Liaison Representative (Rex Jaeschke)

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N/A
 
DOCUMENT TYPE:
Other (defined)

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STATUS:
This document is circulated to SC 22 members for information.  It will be
discussed under agenda item 7.2.1.  

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat
Sally Seitz
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY  10036
Telephone:  (212) 642-4918
Fax:             (212) 840-2298
Email:  [email-masked]

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Ecma International External Liaison Report for 2004-2005
 
Prepared for the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary
in Mt. Tremblant, Quebec, Canada

September/October, 2005

Prepared by Rex Jaeschke
[email-masked]

Date: 2005-07-05

Ecma currently has one Technical Committee, TC39, working on SC 22-related
projects. TC39's work is divided among the following Task Groups (TGs):

1. TC39/TG1 (ECMAScript language): The current standard is ECMA-262, 3rd
Edition - December 1999, which was published as ISO/IEC 16262:2002(E), 2nd
Edition. Work on the next version is continuing. The editor of record for
the standard is Francis Cheng. An adjunct standard, ECMAScript for XML
(E4X), was adopted by the Ecma GA in June 2004 as ECMA 357, and was
processed by JTC 1 via the Fast-Track mechanism. The editor of record for
this standard is Jeff Dyer.

No Defect Reports have been received in the past year.

2. TC39/TG2 (C# language): The current standard is ECMA-334, 3rd Edition -
June 2005, and is currently being processed by JTC 1 via the Fast-Track
mechanism. The editor of record is Rex Jaeschke.

No Defect Reports have been received in the past year. However, numerous
informal questions and suggestions from the Japanese National Body (JIS)
were handled by email as JIS members translated the standard into Japanese.

3. TC39/TG3 (Common Language Infrastructure): The current standard is
ECMA-335, 3rd Edition - June 2005. Two companion Technical Reports are ECMA
TR/84, 3rd Edition - June 2005 and ECMA TR/89, 1st Edition - June 2005. All
three are currently being processed by JTC 1 via the Fast-Track mechanism.
The editor of record for all three is Rex Jaeschke.

No Defect Reports have been received in the past year.

4. TC39/TG4 (Eiffel Language): The current standard is ECMA-367, 1st Edition
- June 2005, and is currently being processed by JTC 1 via the Fast-Track
mechanism. The editor of record is Prof. Bertrand Meyer.

5. TC39/TG5 (C++/CLI language): This language adds extensions to JTC 1/SC
22/WG 21's C++ language standard ISO/IEC 14882:2003 to support the Common
Language Infrastructure standard. The editor of record is Rex Jaeschke. 

C++/CLI is not being defined in isolation from Standard C++; quite the
contrary. All TG5 documents are made available to WG 21 members, a joint
TG5-WG 21 email reflector handles technical discussions, and WG 21 members
are invited to attend TG5 meetings. A number of C++/CLI's innovations have
been submitted to WG 21 for its consideration as additions to a future
version of the C++ standard.

6. Ecma offers to SC 22 intermediate versions of any of the above up-coming
Fast-Track proposals should SC 22 want to receive them.

Sally Seitz
Program Manager
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 642-4918
Fax: (212) 840-2298
Email: [email-masked]

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