From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Aug 26 18:53:40 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 SAA29877 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 18:53:37 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access5.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA12878 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:53:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2567 - SC22 Response to New Standards Maintenance Procedures 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 N2567 August 1997 TITLE: SC22 Response to ISO/IEC JTC 1 on Proposed New Procedures for Maintenance of Mature Standards SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: This response has been forwarded to ISO/IEC JTC 1. CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2573, N2574 (Res. 97-26) DOCUMENT TYPE: N/A ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies, WG Conveners and HODs for information. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-9273 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net _________________ end of title page; beginning of text ________________ SC22 Comments on Proposed New Procedure for Maintenance of Mature Standards SC22 has considered the new procedure for maintenance of mature standards proposed by SC21 in document JTC1 N4353. SC22 notes that this is not a new problem and that SC22 has several standards originally developed within SC22 working groups that are no longer active. SC22 believes that the proposed procedure is overly complex for its needs and entails far more overhead than is required or even possible to be provided for maintenance of mature standards in SC22. In contrast to the proposed procedure, SC22 has handled the problem very satisfactorily by appointing a project editor to process any required maintenance and make any appropriate recommendations to SC22. Accordingly, SC22 recommends to JTC1 that subcommittees retain the flexibility to handle maintenance of mature standards in whatever manner is most effective as long as the requirements of the JTC1 Directives are met. Specifically, SC22 recommends that the proposed procedure not be required but be, at most, an optional procedure for use where appropriate. _____________________ end of SC22 N2567 ___________________________