From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Jul 15 18:11:42 1997 Received: from access4.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access4.digex.net [205.197.245.195]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA18021 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:11:40 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access4.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA07846 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:11:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:11:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2502 - WG16 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 N2502 TITLE: WG16 Business Plan and WG16 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 Convener's Report and Business Plan will be considered under Agenda Item 8.9 at 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/WG16 (ISLISP) PERIOD COVERED: August 1996 - July 1997 SUBMITTED BY: Pierre Parquier (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG16 Convener) 9 rue de Verdun, 94253 Gentilly Cedex, France +33 1 49 08 35 86 parquier@ilog.fr 1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 1.1 JTC1/SC22/WG16 STATEMENT OF SCOPE WG16 is responsible for the single project 22.23, producing an international standard for Lisp. 1.2 PROJECT REPORT 1.2.1 COMPLETED PROJECTS JTC1.22.23 -- ISO/IEC 13816 "Programming Language ISLISP" ISO/IEC 13211 was published in May 1997. 1.2.2 PROJECTS UNDERWAY No project underway. 1.2.3 COOPERATION AND COMPETITION WG16 has cooperated with EuLisp and Common Lisp communities. ISLISP being a small Lisp supporting common practices in the Lisp community, it partly leveraged on the efforts of the EuLisp community, funded by the European Commmission, which had similar goals. Many EuLisp experts contributed to WG16. As the project JTC1.22.23 matured, EuLisp community gradually ended stopped its activity. ISLISP is also meant to be somewhat embedable in ANSI Common Lisp implementations, so Common Lisp experts contributed to WG16 to ensure its implememntability in a Common Lisp environment. Common Lisp is not as much a competing standard, since it aims at providing a much wider Lisp language. 2.0 PERIOD REVIEW 2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS The Lisp user and vendor community has not expressed any strong requirement for further standardization, except for C/C++ binding. The WG16 investigated modules, i18n, graphics, binding facilities, but none were identified as standardizable in the short term, either for lack of strong demand or lack of maturity of current technology. WG16 identified C binding should be included in a subsequent revision of the standard ISO/IEC 13816. 2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS Move CD 13816 to DIS status: - 1996-10-21: DIS passed unanimously - 1996-09-30: ITTF commented DIS proposal to gain time over the next step Move DIS 13816 to IS status: - 1996-12-31: IS13816 sent to ITTF for publication - 1996-05-01: after new minute comments from ITTF are addressed, ISO/IEC 13816 is finally published I feel that the final step (IS publication) has been way too slow (4 months). I suggest SC22 determines if this is a usual delay, and if so asks JTC1 to improve the publication process. 2.3 RESOURCES The work for the period reviewed has mostly been IS editing; the Project Editor (Kent Pitman, USA) supplied the required effort. Besides Canada, France, Japan, UK and USA contributed to the disposition of comments. Resources to address defect reports are secured (FR and US, and GB and JP as backup). 3.0 FOCUS NEXT WORK PERIOD For the upcoming work period, WG16 will be ready to recieve reports on ISO/IEC 13816. Work on the next revision of ISO/IEC 13816 (e.g. C binding) is not expected to begin during the next period. 3.1 DELIVERABLES none over the next period. 3.2 STRATEGIES Wait for defect reports and organize the work of WG16 depending on the content of these reports. 3.2.1 RISKS None for the work planned over the next period. 3.2.2 OPPORTUNITIES None for the work planned over the next period. 3.3 WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES None for the work planned over the next period. 4. OTHER ITEMS This section lists other items that are not part of the "Business Plan" but are appropriate for Convener's Report. 4.1 POSSIBLE ACTION REQUEST AT FORTHCOMING PLENARY None. 4.2 PROJECT EDITOR JTC1.22.23 -- Programming Language ISLISP Kent Pitman 4.3 ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION WG16 has been working over e-mail for over 8 years. Since March 1996 every WG16 formal document is distributed electronically; it is still distributed on paper too. 4.4 RECENT MEETING 15th WG16 meeting: - in Bath (United Kingdom), November 8, 1996 - main focus: disposition of comments on DIS ballot, plan for IS ballot, future projects - 4 NBs attended - minutes and resolutions is SC22/N2339 4.5 FUTURE MEETINGS No meeting expected for the next period. ___________________end of SC22 N2502 _________________________________