From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Jul 22 23:19:53 1997 Received: from access1.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access1.digex.net [205.197.245.192]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA19226 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 23:19:52 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA29463 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:19:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2528 - Public Availability of IS 8652 Technical Corrigenda 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 N2528 July 1997 TITLE: Public Availability of Technical Corrigenda for ISO/IEC 8652:1995 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: Please note that this request will be considered under new Agenda Item 8.4.3 at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: N/A 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 text _____________ From: Jim Moore, Convener, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 Subj: Public Availability of Technical Corrigenda for ISO/IEC 8652:1995 ISO/IEC 8652 on Programming Language Ada was published in 1995. Since then a number of requests for clarification and interpretation have been submitted. WG9 is now planning for the development of a Technical Corrigenda document responding to these requests. WG9 requests that it be permitted to extend the open, public availability of the defect reports to their responses including the Technical Corrigenda document itself. There are several reasons for making the document publicly and openly available: - - During the development process, language users need to be able to evaluate potential corrections to the language to ensure that their investment is not adversely impacted by a change. - - During the development process, compiler vendors should be able to comment upon the implementation difficulties and the potential incompatibilities caused by changes to the language specification. - - During the approval process, both users and vendors need to be sure that early proposals for corrections are faithfully specified in the corrigenda document at all stages. - - All parties need to have access to the proposed changes in the most timely fashion possible. - - Finally, it should be noted that the corrigenda document would be of no value to any user without the base standard itself. On the other hand, open availability of the corrigenda document would make all corrections immediately available to those who have purchased the standard and require timely access to corrections. It should be noted that we are NOT requesting ISO to forgo its copyright of the final document. Copyright is appropriate to ensure that third parties do not make unauthorized changes to the document. Rather, we are asking that WG9 be authorized to publicly display (for example, on the World Wide Web) the final Technical Corrigenda document itself, in addition to copies of the defect reports, related working material and draft documents. Regards, Jim Moore _____________________ end of SC22 N2528 _____________________________