Subject: N 4192 - Change to the SC 22 Program of Work - Reducing ISO/IEC 9 945 to a Single Part Standard

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:35:57 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces 
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI) 
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N 4192 
  
TITLE: 
Change to the SC 22 Program of Work - Reducing ISO/IEC 9945 to a Single Part
Standard

DATE ASSIGNED: 
2007-03-21 
  
SOURCE: 
SC 22 Secretary 
  
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DUE DATE: 
 2007-06-21

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat 
Sally Seitz 
ANSI 
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Telephone:  (212) 642-4918 
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Email:  [email-masked] 

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document___________________________________

The main item of concern is the editorial change to publish 9945 as a single
document and thus a single part, so a 2008 standard would just be ISO
9945:2008

At the moment we are planning to make these changes for our next draft, and
will commence the editorial work on that in May 2007. More detail is
below:

Organization of the text
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Previously the 9945:200x standard has been a single standard at IEEE and The
Open Group but arranged as four parts at ISO -- each separate publications
each with their individual introductions and indices. This was primarily a
production limitation in handling such a large document. Within the four
parts we had introduction section that duplicated information or just
pointed back to text within the first volume (Base Definitions).

We have changed to a new typesetting system and can now typeset the single
text as one with full cross references across the whole of the book (all
3600 pages +). We are thus proposing in our next draft to remove  the
duplicated pages and to only have a single Introduction chapter (with the
usual Scope , Conformance, Normative References etc) and a single large
index.

So the single 9945 book would be arranged

Introduction
Base Definitions text
System Interfaces text
Shell and Utilities text
Rationale
Index

The single .pdf publication also now allows for enhanced book marking and
live cross reference links within the text.

regards
Andrew
9945 Project Editor
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JTC 1/SC 22 Letter Ballot 
FROM THE MEMBER BODY OF:___________________________ 
On the proposal that document SC 22 N 4192 Change to the SC 22 Program of
Work - Reducing ISO/IEC 9945 to a Single Part Standard

This letter ballot is to be returned by each 'P' member to the SC 22 
Secretariat no later than 2007-06-21. 
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Sally Seitz
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American National Standards Institute
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