Subject: SC22 N2782 - Germany National Body Report for SC22 Plenary

From: "william c. rinehuls" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:39:01 -0400 (EDT)

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
N2782

TITLE: 
Germany National Body Activity Report for the August 1998 JTC 1/SC22
Plenary

DATE ASSIGNED:
1998-08-03

SOURCE:
Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22

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N/A

DOCUMENT TYPE:
National Body Activity Report

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STATUS:
Discussion of this document will be an agenda item for the August 1998 JTC
1/SC22 Plenary

ACTION IDENTIFIER:
FYI

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Text

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Def

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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:  [email-masked]

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Germany National Activity Report to the Plenary Meeting of
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, August 24-27, 1998

In Germany "Deutsches Institut fuer Normung DIN" coordinates the
international standardization activities.

The mirror body for ISO/IEC JTC1 is DIN "Normenausschuss
Informationssysteme NI", for SC22 it is NI22.

DIN NI22 meets twice per year in plenary, works extensively by Email
and Internet. It has the following working groups and activities:

(1) International activities
Active International mirror groups, mostly with several
participants and activities for the participation in the
international standardization process (Name of chairpersons):
- WG4 Cobol (Augustin, Reimann)
- WG5 Fortran (Rotthaeuser)
- WG9 Ada (Hermann)
- WG13 Modula (Redtenbacher)
- WG14 C (N.N.)
- WG15  POSIX (Zimmer)
- WG16 LISP (Daessler)
- WG17 Prolog (Daessler)
- WG20 Internationalization (N.N.,Kuester is nominated)  
- WG21 C++ (Hartinger)
- WG22 PCTE (Kelter)
- JSG (Daessler)

(2) National activities
- DIN Standard of PEARL as process control language (Thiele),
will be translated into English due to international interest;
- Maintenance of a German "Fachwoerterliste", Thesaurus of technical
terms (Herty);
- Comparison of the different object oriented concepts
and their implementation in the different programming languages
(NI22);
- Presentation of NI22 in the Internet on the DIN-Server.

In short: Business as usual (hampered by shortage of financial
support)

Wolfgang Giere
HoD
                                   
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