From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Aug 5 22:38:41 1998 Received: from access4.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access4.digex.net [205.197.245.195]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA03876 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:38:39 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access4.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA18663 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:38:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2789 - Japan National Body Activity Report for 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 N2789 TITLE: Japan National Body Activity Report for the August 1998 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-08-05 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: N/A 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 Fadx: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net ______________ end of title page; beginning of report __________________ Japan National Activity Report to the Plenary Meeting of JTC1/SC22, August 1998 1. National Activities for International Standardization SC22 of Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan (ITSCJ) is working as a Japanese National Committee for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22. SC22 meetings are held 6 times per year and some additional ad-hoc meetings. There are ten working groups (COBOL WG, Fortran WG, Ada WG, C WG, Lisp WG, Prolog WG, POSIX WG, C++ WG, Internationalization WG, and Language Independent Issues WG) and one study group (Java SG) under this committee to cope with activities of JTC1/SC22. VDM/SL and Z are covered by another group (Formal Description Technique Sub Working Group) in ITSCJ with close liaison with our SC22. There are no corresponding WGs to WG3 (APL), WG13 (Modula-2), or WG22 (PCTE). Java SG Java SG was established under Japanese SC22 in April 1998. This group corresponds to SC22 Java Study Group, and prepares the expected SMI fast-track submission of Java. The group consists of more than twenty experts including liaison members from other SCs such as SC29. The group is meeting more than once a month, and is preparing draft straw man response on Java standards (due Nov. 1998) as well as checking issues related to the Java technology standardization. COBOL WG COBOL WG is participating very actively both of SC22/WG4 meetings and ANSI/X3J4 (NCISTS J4) meetings. Japan is strongly interested in facilities of MOCS and Object Orientation of the next COBOL Standard. Fortran WG Fortran WG has continued its active participation with SC22/WG5. We responded one FCD ballot (Part 3: Conditional compilation) and two DTR ballots (Floating Point Exception Handling and Enhanced Data Type Facilities). Translation of ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997 into Japanese was completed. The translated document has been approved and will be submitted for publication as the revised document of JIS Fortran standard. Ada WG Translation of ISO/IEC 8652:1995 into Japanese was completed by members of SIG Ada-Japan. Based on this document, we are planning to make a JIS standard of Ada. Language Independent Issues WG This WG is the corresponding WG for SC22/WG11. Japanese delegate is participating SC22/WG11 meetings actively. C WG SC22/WG14 and ANSI/J11 are now debating mainly on revising the ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (C9X) via e-mail. C WG is registered in this e-mail alias and joining in the discussion, and C WG has reviewed Committee Draft (draft C9X) and suggested several improvements and corrections. POSIX WG POSIX WG is attending WG15 meetings. The NP proposal for developing the Guideline for National Profiles and Locales as a TR was originally proposed by Japan and Japan was requested to lead this development. In order to handle this request, Japan has created Profiles Sub WG under POSIX WG. It was decided that this activity will be done in cooperation with IEEE PASC, and PAR for PASC SEC was sent to IEEE. Lisp WG Members of Lisp WG have actively worked to define a JIS standard for ISLisp, which has been developed by SC22/WG16 on the basis of KL (Kernel Language) designed by Japan's Lisp WG and which has become an international standard specification of the Lisp language. The JIS standard was established in July 1998. Prolog WG Prolog WG has been working on two SC22 work items: Prolog Part 1 - General Core and Part 2 - Modules and sending delegations to most of SC22/WG17 meetings. Formal Description Technique Sub Working Group (FDT-SWG) This SWG is the corresponding WG for SC22/WG19 and is actively reviewing not only Z but also VDM-SL. Internationalization WG This WG is the corresponding group for SC22/WG20 in Japan. The WG meets once a month regularly and, when necessary, holds ad-hoc meetings inviting other related specialists from each programming language group or even outside of the SC22's scope. Japanese delegate is participating in SC22/WG20 meetings very actively. C++ WG Major effort continued to focus on stabilization of the language and the library. C++ WG in ITSCJ has contributed to the effort primarily in areas of particular interests such as extended characters, strings, locales and I/O streams by creating and reviewing proposals. 2. Development of National Standards The Japanese national standard is known as Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS). The current status of JISs in the area of SC 22 is as follows: 1) Established JISs - Fortran (JIS X 3001 - 1994) = ISO/IEC 1539:1991 - Fortran Part 2 (JIS X 3001-2 = 1998) = ISO/IEC 1539-2:1994 - COBOL (JIS X 3002 - 1992) = ISO/IEC 1989:1985 + AMD 1 - Full BASIC (JIS X 3003 - 1993) = ISO/IEC 10279: 1991 - Pascal (JIS X 3008 - 1994) = ISO/IEC 7185:1990 - Ada (JIS X 3009 - 1991) = ISO/IEC 8652:1987 - C (JIS X 3010 - 1996) = ISO/IEC 9899:1990 + AMD 1:1995 - MUMPS (JIS X 3011 - 1995) = ISO/IEC 11756:1990 - POSIX Part 1 (JIS X 3030- 1994) = ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 - ISLisp (JIS X 3012 - 1998) = ISO/IEC 13816:1997 2) JISs to be established in FY 1998 - Fortran Part 1 = ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997 - POSIX Part 2 = ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 3) Draft JISs being prepared in FY 1998 - Prolog Part 1: General Core = ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995 ____________________ end of SC22 N2789 __________________________________