Subject: N 4116-National Activity Report of the United Kingdom for August 2005-July 2006

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:41:16 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)
 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4116
 
TITLE:
National Activity Report of the United Kingdom for August 2005-July 2006

DATE ASSIGNED:
2006-08-21
 
SOURCE:
UK  National Body

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DOCUMENT TYPE:
National Body Contribution

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STATUS:
This document will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda
Item 7.1.   

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UK National Body activity report
August 2005 - July 2006
The UK participant committee for SC22 is BSI IST/5, Programming Languages.

Technical work
Almost all of the technical work of IST/5 is in relation to SC22 projects,
and it maintains technical panels which co-ordinate the UK contribution to
the SC22 WGs in which the UK is active. These panels advise IST/5 on matters
such as letter ballots.

In addition the UK provides the secretariat and convenor for WG5 (Fortran)
and for WG19 (Formal Specification Languages). The UK also provides the
Project Editors for two parts of the Fortran Standard and for two of the
Fortran Technical Reports, for the standards for Pascal, Extended Pascal,
Prolog, VDM, Z and Extended BNF and for Technical Reports on Ada (two), C++
and POSIX.

The UK is active in, and maintains panels for - WG4 (COBOL), WG5 (Fortran),
WG9 (Ada), WG11 (Bindings), WG14 (C), WG16 (Lisp), WG17 (Prolog), WG19
(Formal Specification Languages) for both VDM-SL and for Z, WG21 (C++), and
OWG (Vulnerabilities). Other panels monitor Linux, C# and Common Language
Infrastructure (participating informally in the ECMA revision process).

Concerns
Active participation continues to be a concern to the UK, especially of
cross-language groups such as WG11.