From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Jul 22 23:26:46 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 XAA19318 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 23:26:44 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA29705 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:26:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2529 - Revised 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 N2529 July TITLE: Revised 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 replace the Report and Plan contained in document SC22 N2502 and will be considered under Agenda Item 8.9 at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: Replaces SC22 N2502 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 The WG16 activities of producing ISLISP were done by collaborative work of six regularly participating P-member nations; France (Convenor), United States (Project Editor), Canada, Germany, Japan, and United Kingdom. These nations had close collaboration with their local Lisp communities; for example, EuLisp community in European nations, X3J13 in United States, and IPSJ-SIGSYM community in Japan. ISLISP was designed on the bases of KL (proposed by Japan) and CLOS (proposed by US), reflecting experiences of COMMON LISP, EULISP, LE LISP, and SCHEME, and taking into account common practices in the Lisp community. ISLISP is a small Lisp, but it is designed with extensibility in mind, trying to keep compatibility with existing Lisp dialects, too. ISLISP would be embeddable in COMMON LISP implementations without big efforts, but ISLISP will promote efficient implementations if it is implemented from scratch. ISO ISLISP, ANSI COMMON LISP and IEEE SCHEME would be co-existing and complementary in the Lisp community, since they have their own distinctive features in languages, systems, and applications. 2.0 PERIOD REVIEW 2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS The WG16 investigated modules, i18n, graphics, binding facilities, taking into consideration several input documents from the member nations. But none of them was identified as standardizable in the short term, because of lack of maturity of current technology. At the 15th meeting in Bath WG16 identified some of them (in particular, 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 According to our experience on ISLISP 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. In addition Canada, France, Japan, UK and the 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 (United States of America) 4.3 ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION WG16 has been working over e-mail for over 8 years. Since March 1996 every WG16 formal document has been distributed electronically. 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, remaining issues like C binding, graphics, modules, etc. - 4 NBs attended - minutes and resolutions is SC22/N2339 4.5 FUTURE MEETINGS No meeting expected for the next period. ___________________ end of SC22 N2529 ________________________________