From rinehuls@access.digex.net Thu Jun 5 23:00:45 1997 Received: from access2.digex.net (rinehuls@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA29706 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 23:00:43 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA10568 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:00:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:00:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2485 - WG14 Business Plan/Convener's Report for Plenary Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ___________________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 N2485 TITLE: WG14 Business Plan and WG14 Convener's Report for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: Please note that consideration of this Report and Business Plan will be an agenda item for the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Convener's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for review. 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 report _____________ Business Plan and Convener's Report ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 (The Programming Language C) PERIOD COVERED: June 1996 - May 1997 SUBMTTED BY: Convener, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 John Benito Perennial, Inc. 3004 Mission Street #130 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Phone: +1 408 748 2900 Fax: +1 408 457 3916 Email: jb@peren.com 1. Management Summary 1.1. JTC1/SC22/WG14 STATEMENT OF SCOPE Development and maintenance of ISO/IEC Standards related to the programming language C. 1.2. PROJECT REPORT 1.2.1. COMPLETED PROJECTS None over this period. 1.2.2. PROJECTS UNDERWAY JTC1.22.20.01 - Programming Language C (Revision of ISO/IEC 9899:1990) JTC1/SC22 N2444 was submitted to SC22 for CD Registration ballot on April 97, this ballot will close July 1997. 1.2.3. CANCELLED PROJECTS None over this period. 1.2.4. COOPERATION and COMPETITION Where appropriate, WG14 has established active liaisons with other SC22 working groups. There is no apparent direct competition with any other current SC22 working group. 2. PEROID REVIEW 2.1. MARKET REQUIREMENTS WG14 feels that it is responding to user community pressure and to implementers concerns to revise the ISO/IEC 9899 standard to keep current with today's programming trends and market. The Committee believes that evolution of Object Oriented programming, numerical extensions that were proposed by J11.1, internationalization, advancements in character set standardization, cross-language standards and cross-language bindings all need to be considered in the revised standard. Most of these issues where not considered during the technical discussions for the current ISO C Standard. Please, see document ISO/IEC JCT 1/SC22 N2265 Charter for the Revision of the C Standard . 2.2. ACHIEVEMENTS WG14 produced the N2444 for CD Registration Ballot. WG14 also worked on Defect Reports, keeping the Defect Report Log current. 2.3. RESOURCES WG14 meets three times per year in co-located technical sessions with the US committee J11. Nine countries participate by attending these meetings or by being involved in the technical discussions that take place over the reflector. The countries are: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, and the USA. WG14 has been monitoring the cross-language standards activities, and are using the ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG20 guidelines on extended characters. WG14 has also keep apprised of the requirements of the LIA-1,2 standards. No explicit binding has been produced. WG14 liaison appointments are: WG11 Language Independent Datatypes Keld Simonsen WG15 Posix Keld Simonsen WG20 Internationalization Keld Simonsen WG21 C++ John Benito 3. FOCUS NEXT WORK PERIOD During the next work period, WG14 will focus on moving the Working Paper through the final CD Ballot. Resolving all Public comments, reaching the DIS stage of the project. 3.1. DELIVERABLES WG14 anticipates that CD 9899 will be approved, moving to the next stage in the standards process. 3.2. STRATEGIES WG14 believes that routine handling will suffice to complete the progress desired. 3.3. RISKS No problems are anticipated. 3.4. OPPORTUNITIES None. 3.5. WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES WG14 will concentrate on the revision of 9899, however WG14 will still respond to Defect Report logged for the current ISO/IEC 9899:1990 Standard. 4. OTHER ITEMS 4.1. POSSIBLE ACTION REQUESTS AT FORTHCOMING PLENARY None currently. 4.2. APPOINTMENT OF NEW CONVENER At the last SC22 Plenary in London, September 1996, John Benito (USA) was appointed the new convener of WG14. He follows Dr. P. J. Plauger (USA) who was the first convener of WG14. 4.3. PROJECT EDITORS The following individuals have been appointed project editors and backup project editors: JTC1.22.20.01 Programming Language C (Revision of ISO/IEC 9899:1990) Frank Farance (Project Editor), David Keaton (Backup Project Editor) 4.4. ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION WG14 has conducted much of its detailed technical discussion using email reflector provided by the Danish UNIX Users Group and Keld Simonsen. WG14 also has an ftp and Web site provided by courtesy of David Keaton, with a mirror site provided by the Danish UNIX Users Group and Keld Simonsen. 4.5. RECENT MEETINGS 24-28 Jun 96 Amsterdam, Netherlands NNI, University of Amsterdam 21-25 Oct 96 Toronto, Canada SCC, IBM 10-14 Feb 97 Kona, Hawaii ANSI, Plum Hall 4.6. FUTURE MEETINGS 23-27 Jun 97 London, UK BSI 27-31 Oct 97 San Francisco, USA ANSI, Sun Microsystems 02-06 Feb 98 Colorado, USA ANSI, David Keaton __________________end of SC22 N2485 __________________________________