From rinehuls@access.digex.net Thu Jun 11 18:44:53 1998 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 SAA16981 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:44:50 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access5.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA09091 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:44:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2731 - Ireland National Body Activity Report for August 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 N2731 TITLE: Ireland National Body Activity Report for the August 1998 SC22 Plenary DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-06-11 SOURCE Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Activity Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: Discussion of this document will be an agenda item 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 __________________ IRELAND NATIONAL BODY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE AUGUST 1998 SC22 PLENARY In this field, the Irish Member Body really has as its particular interest only one WG of SC22, namely SC22/WG20, which is concerned with sorting the UCS. Frankly it is a bit burdensome to have to deal with all the SC22 correspondence and make sure Ireland votes on time and so forth when interest in this area in general by people in Ireland other than the expert currently attending SC22/WG20 is currently rather low. Having discussed this with members of our national committee, we point out the following: 1. The chief reason Ireland became a P-Member of SC22 was because there was a danger that there would not be enough P-Member participation in WG20 and it was a formal requirement. 2. The Irish national position on the JTC1 restructuring is that a new Technical Direction should be established comprising at least the work items of JTC1/SC2 and JTC1/SC22/WG20. We are disappointed that the chair of SC22 has not made a recommendation to JTC1 in this regard. 3. We continue to participate in the work of SC22 solely because of our interest in the work of SC22/WG20 pending the decision of JTC1 on the matter. _____________________ end of SC22 N2731 _____________________________