From rinehuls@access.digex.net Mon Sep 15 19:34:48 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 TAA11992 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:34:45 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA26759 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:33:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2585 - SC22 Liaison Report to SC2 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 N2585 TITLE SC22 Laision Report to SC2 DATE ASSIGNED: 1997-09-15 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Liaison Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: As requested at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary, Mr. Van Wingen has provided this liaison report. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2573 DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def 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) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net _____________________end of title page; beginning of report ________ INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 N June 1997 VERSION 1.0 REPORT OF THE SC2 LIAISON REPRESENTATIVE TO SC22 TO ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 Plenary meeting, 8-9 July 1997, Iraklio, Greece The activities of SC22, Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces, with respect to character coding issues were followed as closely as possible. The SC22 Plenary meeting took place in London, UK, 23-27 September 1996. Only one resolution of particular interest to SC2 was adopted. This endorsed sending to SC2 a comment to PDAM9 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (SC22 N 2291), circulated in SC2 as N 2764. There was some history behind it. At the Annapolis meeting of SC22 in 1995 a proposal was adopted (recorded in N 1968) to request SC2 to introduce "identifiers" in its standards. The SC2 Liaison Representative was not consulted, who had been able to contribute very critical remarks, which he only could communicate to the SC22 Chairman when it was too late. No delegation was informed beforehand of this proposal, and thus no timely discussion in the national committees was possible resulting in proper instruction to the delegates. Thus the matter was raised again at the next SC22 Plenary meeting in London, 23-27 September, with the result that several amendments were proposed to PDAM9. At present DAM9 is under vote, and a Disposition of Comments produced (SC2 N 2826). It is clear that the DAM9, apart from some editorial defects, conforms to SC22's wishes, but no mention was made in the D of C of SC22, be it that the Project Editor apologised to this writer for the omission. A formal resolution by SC2 should acknowledge the acceptation of the SC22 comments, and sent as a liaison statement to SC22. Nor DAM9, nor N 2826 were submitted to SC22 for comment. The next SC22 Plenary meeting will be 18-22 August 1997 in Ottawa, Canada. ____________________ end of SC22 N2585 ______________________________