From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Jun 10 19:09:27 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 TAA13552 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:09:23 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA00849 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:09:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:09:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2728 - WG11 Convener's Report for SC22 Plenary 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 N2728 TITLE: WG11 Convener's Report for the August 1998 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary - PLENARY AGENDA ITEM DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-06-10 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: WG Convener's Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: This document will be on the agenda for the August 1998 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N/A 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 _________________ WG11 Convener report to SC22, June 1997 1. WG11 Participation A WG11 meeting was held in London in November 1998 (report of the meeting is in SC22 N2652); the attendance at this meeting was minimal. A tentatively scheduled WG11 meeting for August 1998 will not take place due to delays in producing the 2nd CD of LIA-2. 2. Issues for the August 1998 Plenary 2.1 ToR of WG11 The current Terms of Reference of WG11 is (see SC22 N2698): "Study binding issues between programming languages and the abstract facilities with which they interface or interact. Serve as the SC22 focal point for coordinating SC22 comments on SC21 bindings". It is proposed to bring this ToR in line with the TOR of other WGs, and to strike the sentence about SC21. Proposed text for a new ToR: "To study binding issues between programming languages and the abstract facilities with which they interface or interact, and to propose, develop and maintain ISO standards in this area." 2.2 Reconfirmation of ISO/IEC 10967-1:1994 With reference to SC22 N2674: WG11 recommends reconfirmation of ISO/IEC 10967-1:1994 - Language Independent Arithmetic - Part 1: Integer and Floating Point Arithmetic. 2.3 Projects Not Reaching CD Stage Within Three Years of NP Approval With reference to SC22 N2698: LIA-3 will be produced after LIA-2 has become stable and is well underway. A first draft for SC22 Review and Comment is expected by fall 1999. 3. Work Item JTC1.22.16 - Common Procedure Calling Mechanism This project is finalized: the document is published as ISO/IEC 13886:1996. 4. Work Item JTC1.22.17 - Language Independent Datatypes This project is finalized: the document is published as ISO/IEC 11404:1996. 5. Work Item JTC1.22.28 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1 This project is finalized: the document is published as ISO/IEC 10967- 1:1994. 6. Work Item JTC1.22.33 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 2 DoC on the first FCD and the ballot text for the 2nd FCD will be available in July 1998. 7. Work Item JTC1.22.34 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 3 The work on this part of IS 10967 (on complex arithmetic and procedures) will follow (in time) the work on part 2, 8. Language Independent Service Specifications PDTR 14369 is under registration ballot (see SC22 N2658; end of ballot: 1998-06-30). It is the intention of WG11 to handle comments on the ballot by email; unless there are many and/or controversial comments no WG11 meeting will be necessary to complete this document. 9. Meetings It is planned to have a WG11 meeting shortly after the ballot on the 2nd FCD for LIA-2 closes. 10. Liaisons Liaisons exist with the following SC22 WGs: WG2 - Pascal, WG3 - APL, WG4 - COBOL, WG9 - Ada, WG14 - C, WG20 - Internationalization and WG22 - PCTE. Also, liaison representatives from SC24 (Graphics) and SC26 (Micro Processors) to WG11 have been appointed. Informal liaisons also exists with SC22/WG13 - Modula-2, SC22/WG17 - Prolog and SC2 - Characters. 11. Contact points Drs. Willem Wakker ACE Consulting bv Van Eeghenstraat 100 1071 GL AMSTERDAM Nederland Phone: +31 20 6646416 Fax: +31 20 6750389 Email: willemw@ace.nl Remark: Convener SC22/WG11 Mr. Tom Turba Unisys Corporation P.O. Box 64942 St. Paul MN 55164-0942 U.S.A. Phone: +1 612 635 6774 Fax: +1 612 635 3899 Email: turba@rsvl.unisys.com Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG2 - Pascal Dr. Eke van Batenburg RUL, Instituut voor Theoretische Biologie Kaiserstraat 63 2311 GP LEIDEN Nederland Phone: +31 71 274900 Fax: +31 71 274972 Email: Batenburg@rulsfb.LeidenUniv.nl Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG3 - APL Mr. Donald Nelson Tandem Computers Inc. 5425 Stevens Creek Blvd. Santa Clara CA 95051-7200 U.S.A. Phone: +1 408 285 5203 Fax: +1 408 285 5245 Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG4 - COBOL Mr. Bill Carlson Intermetrics Inc. 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge MA 02138 U.S.A. Phone: +1 617 661 1840 Fax: +1 617 868 2843 Email: carlson@inmet.inmet.com Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG9 - ADA Mr. Keld Simonsen DKnet/DS Sankt Joergens Alle 8 DK-1615 COPENHAGEN V Denmark Phone: +45 3917 9944 Fax: +45 3120 8948 Email: keld@dkuug.dk Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG14 - C and SC22/WG20 Internationalization Mr. Christof Blum Fraunhofer-Computer Graphics Research Group Wilhelminenstr. 7 W-6100 DARMSTADT Germany Phone: +49 6151 155 145 Fax: +49 6151 155 194 Remark: Liaison with SC24 - Computer Graphics Dr. Richard Karpinski University of California San Francisco U-76 San Francisco CA 94143-0704 U.S.A. Phone: +1 415 476 4529 Remark: Liaison with SC26 - Micro Processors ______________________ end of SC22 N2728 _______________________________