From rinehuls@access.digex.net Fri Jun 20 17:32:09 1997 Received: from access5.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access5.digex.net [205.197.245.196]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA09413 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:32:06 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access5.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA26433 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:32:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:32:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: Revised SC22 N2492 - WG20 Business Plan and Convener's Report 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 N2492 June 1997 TITLE: WG20 Business Plan and WG20 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 this Report contains a number of action items for SC22 approval at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Convener's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for review and action. 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 __________________ Business plan and convenor's report: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22/WG20 - INTERNATIONALIZATION PERIOD COVERED: July 1996 - June 1997 SUBMITTED BY: Convenor WG20 Arnold F. Winkler Unisys B254 2476 Swedesford Road Paoli, PA 19301 Tel: 610-993-7305 Fax: 610-695-5473 E-mail: Arnold.Winkler@unisys.com 1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 1.1 SCOPE Identification of elements relevant to the work of SC22 that may be affected by differences in language, culture, customs and habits; and for these elements, develop standards that enable applications to be portable across differing cultural practices; and develop a Technical Report that describes a framework for nations to provide those elements 1.2 PROJECTS UNDERWAY Project number Description Editors 22.13 Second edition of TR 10176: "Guidelines for the preparation of programming language standards" Akio Kido and Makoto Noda 22.30.01 (completed) TR 11017: "Framework for internationalization" T.K. Sato 22.30.02.01 (umbrella project - no standard associated) Functionality of the internationalization of applications Keld Simonsen 22.30.02.02 ISO/IEC 14651: International string ordering Alain LaBonte 22.30.02.03 ISO/IEC 14652: Specification of Cultural Conventions Keld Simonsen 22.15435 ISO/IEC 15435: Internationalization API Keld Simonsen For details see later discussion of projects in section 4. 2.0 PERIOD REVIEW 2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS WG20 believes that through the proliferation of PCs and the world wide web, internationalization has become a very important factor in the creation of programs and thus programming languages. 2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS During last year WG20, especially the editor T.K. Sato, completed the work on TR 11017 - Framework for internationalization. The TR is now with ITTF for publication. The international string ordering standard (IS 14651) has now CD status and we will submit the updated document for final CD ballot in October. 2.3 RESOURCES The working group has met 12 times since the first meeting in 1991. Participants come from Canada, Denmark, Egypt, England, Ireland, Israel, France, Japan, and the United States. WG20 has established a good working relationship with CEN TC304 working groups for sorting and cultural conventions, we even met for a common session in autumn of 1996. The biggest issue in SC22/WG20 - as in most other standards developing organizations - is that many companies can not afford to make enough resources available for speedy development of standards. For many participants in our meetings, the meeting time is the only time they can spend on the projects. Additionally, travel budgets are tight, thus restricting the participation even further. WWW HOME PAGE FOR SC22/WG20 SC22/WG20 opened it's WWW home page. The home page address is http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/ The home page includes: Introduction and explanation of SC22/WG20 activities Important documents about it's activities Working drafts of standards from SC22/WG20 Summary of the key SC22/WG20 documents and standards Keld Simonsen maintains the home page. 2.3.1 Meetings of SC22/WG20 1 November 1991 Sunnyvale USA 2 April 1992 Paris France 3 October 1992 Quebec Canada 4 April 1993 Copenhagen Denmark 5 October 1993 Tokyo Japan 6 April 1994 Oxford United Kingdom 7 October 1994 Cupertino USA 8 May 1995 Paris France 9 September 1995 Copenhagen Denmark 10 April 1996 Kyoto Japan 11 September 1996 Vienna Austria 12 May 1997 Quebec Canada 13 November 1997 Cairo Egypt 14 May 1998 Dublin Ireland 15 Fall 1998 Israel USA and UK as alternatives 2.3.2 Liaisons from WG20 Liaison from WG20 Organization Subject T.K. Sato SC2/WG2 Character Sets Keld Simonsen SC22/WG15 POSIX Miles Ellis SC22/WG5 FORTRAN Keld Simonsen SC22/WG14 C Keld Simonsen SC22/WG21 C++ Gary Miller X/Open I18n Alain LaBonte GUIDE/SHARE-Europe I18n Keld Simonsen CEN TC 304 I18n, character set technology Alain LaBonte SC18/WG9 User System Interface Alain LaBonte SC18 C/G Model Keld Simonsen TC37/SC2/WG3 Alphabetic ordering 2.3.3 Liaisons to WG20 Liaison to WG20 Organization Subject T.K. Sato SC2/WG2 Character Sets Keld Simonsen SC22/WG15 POSIX Ann Wallace SC22/WG4 COBOL Miles Ellis SC22/WG5 FORTRAN Jim Melton SC21/WG3 SQL Keld Simonsen SC22/WG14 C Keld Simonsen SC22/WG21 C++ Gary Miller X/Open I18n Alain LaBonte GUIDE/SHARE-Europe I18n Torvadur Kari Olafsson CEN TC 304 I18n, character set technology Keld Simonsen SC22/WG22 PCTE 3.0 FOCUS OF NEXT WORK PERIOD Provide disposition of ballot comments and TR text for JTC1.22.13 (TR 10176) Bring project JTC1.22.30.02 (IS 14651) to FCD and DIS ballot Bring project JTC1.22.30.03 (IS 14652) to CD ballot Bring project JTC1.22.15435 (IS 15435) to CD registration 3.1 DELIVERABLES WG20 makes all efforts to complete project JTC1.22.13, revision of guidelines for the preparation of programming language standards, with the disposition of the DTR ballot comments and the final TR text later this year. We concentrate our efforts to get IS 14651, the sorting standard, to FCD and to DIS ballot. 3.2 STRATEGIES WG20 needs to find a native English speaker to edit TR 10176 for proper English. None of the participants in WG20 has English as the mother tongue. WG20 needs to progress project JTC1.22.30.03 (cultural conventions specification) to CD stage for reference in the sorting standard. 3.2.1 RISKS Technical objections in late state of projects may delay them. 3.2.2 OPPORTUNITIES We expect that the increased use of electronic distribution and the web will speed up our internal approval process. We also hope that the participation from Ireland and England will result in help for the editorial review of TR 10176. 3.3 WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES Complete TR 10176 Registration and CD ballot for IS 14652 FCD and DIS ballot for IS 14541. 4 STATUS OF ACTIVE PROJECTS 4.1 TR 11017: Framework for internationalization Framework for internationalization JTC1 22.30.01 A type 3 Technical Report T. K. Sato The TR 11017 is being published in English and French language. The project is completed, the TR is being published by ITTF. 4.2 Second edition of TR 10176 Guidelines for the preparation of programming languages standards JTC1 22.13 An amendment to a type 3 Technical Report A. Kido and M. Noda Document SC22 N4579 (WG20 N477) has been sent for DTR ballot to JTC1. Ballot closed June 17, 1997. 4.3 International string ordering (future ISO/IEC 14651) International string ordering JTC1 22.30.02.02 International Standard ISO/IEC 14651 Alain LaBonte Document SC22 N2364 (WG20 N471) has been sent for CD ballot to JTC1. The ballot results in SC22 N2466 were discussed in the WG20 meeting in Quebec, the editor is preparing the disposition of comments and the new version of the standard will be sent to SC22 for FCD ballot in October 1997. 4.4 Cultural convention specification standard (future ISO/IEC 14652) Cultural convention specification standard JTC1.22.30.02.03 International Standard ISO/IEC 14652 Keld Simonsen A document is being prepared for registration and CD ballot. It will be sent to SC22 for distribution end of June 1997 4.5 Internationalization API standard (future ISO/IEC 15435) Internationalization API standard C1 22.15435 International Standard ISO/IEC 15435 Keld Simonsen A document is being prepared for CD registration ballot 5 CANDIDATE PROJECTS 5.1 Functionality of Internationalization Functionality of the internationalization of applications JTC1 22.30.02.01 A number of standards, see subproject descriptions below Keld Simonsen This is an umbrella project This project is the umbrella project for the development of specific standards for functionality of the internationalization of applications, such that users can specify their cultural requirements, and obtain consistent behavior across system platforms and applications. Work is being done on the following projects: - International string ordering (IS 14651) - Cultural convention specification standard (IS 14652) 6 REQUESTS TO THE SC22 PLENARY 6.1 Title of IS 14651 WG20 requests that SC22 approve to change the title of JTC1.22.30.02.02 - IS 14651 - to "International string ordering and comparison - Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering". (The current title is: ISO/IEC 14651 - International String Ordering - Method for comparing character strings and description of a default tailorable ordering) 6.2 Project editor for project JTC1.22.15435 - I18N APIs WG20 asks SC22 to appoint Keld Simonsen as project editor for JTC1.22.15435 - I18N APIs. 6.3 Concurrent CD registration and ballot for JTC1.22.15435 - I18N APIs WG20 requests SC22 to permit concurrent CD registration and CD ballot for the project JTC1.22.15435 - I18N API standard. ___________________end of document SC22 N2492 ______________________