From rinehuls@access.digex.net Fri May 1 22:08:12 1998 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 WAA18299 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 22:08:11 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA04667 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:08:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 16:08:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2705 - SC22 Chairman Report on SC22 Comments - Cultural Adaptability Workshop 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 N2705 TITLE: SC22 Chairman's Report on Request for SC22 Comments on the Recommendations from the JTC 1 Cultural Adaptability Workshop (CAW), January 20-22, 1998 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-04-30 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Information from SC22 Chairman PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2668 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 ___________________ To: SC22 Member Bodies Subject: Cultural Adaptability Workshop In document SC22 N2668, the SC22 Secretariat invited SC22 Member Bodies who wished to comment on the recommendations from the Cultural Adaptibility Workshop to submit them by April 6 so that an SC22 response could be prepared. I would like to thank those Member Bodies who responded to this request. We have received comments from four Member Bodies. I regret to say that these four sets of comments are not in agreement and I do not sense a consensus that could form the basis for an SC22 position. The Danish Member Body sent in the most extensive comments, giving a detailed explanation of the issues involved in cultural adaptibility and the expertise required to deal with them, leading to the conclusion that SC22/W20 should remain within SC22. In contrast, the Irish Member Body favored transfering WG20 out of SC22 and combining the work of WG20 and SC2 in a single SC. The UK Member Body felt that the work of WG20 should be combined with the work of SC2 and the work of JTC1/WG5 in a new SC. The US Member Body's position on organization is similar to the UK's. In view of the above, I do not believe it is possible to submit an SC22 position to JTC1, and I do not plan to do so. It is unfortunate that we do not have a plenary in time to discuss this issue and perhaps reach a consensus. There is also insufficient time prior to the JTC1 plenary to conduct a ballot on the alternatives. Instead, I encourage Denmark, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States to submit their comments to JTC1 as comments on JTC1 N5219, so that they may be considered in Sendai in June when this issue will be further discussed by JTC1. Bob Follett Chairman, SC22 ______________________ end of SC22 N2705 _____________________________