From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Jul 22 18:58:18 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 SAA08526 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:58:16 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA27097 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:58:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:58:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2771 - UK National Body Activity 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 N2771 DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-07-22 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: (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net _____________________ end of title page; beginning of report _________ UK National Body activity report, September 1997 - August 1998 The UK equivalent of SC22 is BSI IST/5, Programming Languages. Following the death of Brian Meek in July 1997 Jon Diamond took over as Chairman of IST/5 in September 1997. Technical work Almost all of the technical work of IST/5 is in relation to SC22 projects, and it maintains technical panels which co-ordinate the UK contribution to the SC22 WGs in which the UK is active. These panels advise IST/5 on matters such as letter ballots. The UK provides the secretariat and convenor for WG5, FORTRAN, WG17, Prolog, and WG19, Formal Specification Languages. In the case of WG19 the UK maintains technical panels for both VDM-SL and for Z and is recommending a new international Convenor. The UK also provides the Project Editor for PCTE. We are also active in, and maintain panels for, WG4, COBOL, WG9, Ada, WG11, Bindings, WG 13, Modula-2, WG14, C, WG15, POSIX, WG16, Lisp, WG21, C++, and the Java Study Group. We are not currently active in, and do not have a panel for WG3, APL. Our participation in WG 20, Internationalisation, has been re-activated with a new panel and chairman, and we have participated actively in this area over the last year. In the past year the UK hosted a meeting of SC22/WG11, Binding Techniques for Programming Languages, and offered to host one for SC22/WG19, Formal Specification Languages. Syntactic metalanguage ISO/IEC 14977 : Extended BNF was published in 1997, and BS 6154 has been withdrawn in its favour. Concerns Active participation continues to be a concern to the UK, especially of cross-language groups such as WG11 and WG20. In addition the UK has submitted a paper about the length and organization of the SC22 Plenary. ________________________ end of SC22 N2771 _________________________