From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Jun 30 00:16:16 1998 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA04261 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:16:14 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA15150 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:17:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:17:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2743 - Convener Report - DIS 16262 Resolution of Comments Meeting 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 N2743 TITLE: Report of the Convener, Resolution of Comments Meeting on DIS 16262 - ECMAScript: A General Purpose Cross-Platform Programming Language (Fast-track Process) DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-06-29 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other PROJECT NUMBER: JTC 1.22.16262 STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2706 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 ______________________ Report of the Convener, Resolution of Comments Meeting on DIS-16262, June 15, 1998 The Ballot Resolution meeting for DIS 16262 ECMAScript was held Monday, June 15, 1998, at Sun Microsystems, in Menlo Park, California. Only the US sent a delegation. The ECMA Project Editor (Mike Cowlishaw) and other ECMA TC-39 members were also present. I convened the meeting and led the discussion of the draft Disposition of Comments Report. The resulting final version is being sent both electronically (HTML) and printed ECMA TC-39 very much appreciated the detailed reviews done by ISO/IEC members. In response to these comments, the document was improved even though the changes were very minor/. The Japanese and Danish comments related to character set issues were responded to as affirmatively as possible without changing the basic technical approach and maintaining consistency with current practice. The ECMA group (TC-39) would like to maintain a more active liaison with these countries during the development of the next version of ECMAScript. The French suggestion was accepted so I assume their vote would change to "approval." I do not expect that any other country would change their vote. Therefore the standard is approved. Mike Cowlishaw is revising the document in line with the Disposition of Comments Report. He indicated you had sent him some editorial comments from ITTF, which he will also incorporate. He will be submitting the revised text to the ECMA General Assembly for adoption as a revision of the ECMA Standard and to ITTF for publication as ISO/IEC 16262. Approval has been very quick and smooth in this case because of close cooperation in the industry and between ECMA and ISO/IEC. The first meeting of ECMA TC-39 was in November 1996; the first version of ECMA-262 was approved in June 1997; the ISO/IEC ballot lasted from October 1997 to April 1998; and the final coordinated ISO/IEC 16262 and ECMA 262 will be published during the summer of 1998. Less than two years between the first meeting and the ISO/IEC publication of this standard is probably some kind of record. I think this successfully completes our work. If there are any remaining questions, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely yours, Robert F. Mathis Convener, DIS 16262 Ballot Resolution Meeting ______________________ end of SC22 N2743 ______________________________