From rinehuls@access.digex.net Mon Aug 31 23:45:07 1998 Received: from access1.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access1.digex.net [205.197.245.192]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA11893; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:45:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rinehuls@access.digex.net) Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA14724; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:38:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2802 - Denmark 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 N2802 TITLE: Denmark National Body Activity Report for the August 1998 SC22 Plenary DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-08-17 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 __________________ Denmark National Body Report Copenhagen, August 1998 This document establishes the Danish activity report to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 Plenary Meeting, in Denmark - 24th to 27th August 1998. As one of the small countries, and a member of the SC22 sub-committee, Denmark has many problems to get enough experts involved in standardisation issues and process. This is mainly dependent on the lack of funds, especially from the public sector, and a lack of interest from private companies. Many of the Danish firms are subsidiaries of companies with main and/or regional offices outside Denmark, mainly USA. Representatives of those companies respond when they are asked that their parent companies are already participating in the standardisation work, and therefore they do not feel that local participation is necessary. We have to admit, that Denmark is mainly a country of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) users, and as such we are mainly supporting the standardisation process from the user's point-of-view. The Danish committee in charge of the SC22 work programme is a part of the Danish parent committee of the 'Danish Standards Association (DS)', namely DS/S142, the Danish counterpart to the ISO/IEC JTC1. Our area of work and expertise concentrates on standardisation work and projects related to the following working groups of the SC22 committee, namely: * WG11 - Binding and Language Independent Techniques * WG14 - Programming Language 'C' * WG15 - Portable Operating System Interface 'POSIX' * WG17 - AI Programming Language 'Prolog' * WG20 - Programming Languages: 'Internationalisation' * WG21 - Programming Language 'C++' One should point out that especially standardisation work done in WG's; 14, 15, and 20 receive special attention in Denmark, since we have quite a few experts in those areas. Due to the shown involvement of the Danish experts, the Danish delegation counts on possibility to discuss - during the recent SC22 plenary meetings, following issues which are of main interest to the Danish experts: 1. A NP on I/O HW support in Programming Language 'C' 2. Problems with references to the ISO standards in ECMA-script in the forthcoming IS 16262 3. The cultural registry in IS 14897 Beside this, we are expecting, that as soon as 'Java(tm)' becomes an object of standardisation and/or maintenance work, due to the approval of Sun as a PAS submitter for 'Java(tm)' technology, we will have some active experts participating in this work. Since some of the standardisation activities are related to the specific European issues and needs, there is a strong co-operation between SC22 and respective, and related European committees (according to the 'Vienna Agreement', between ISO/IEC and CEN/CENELEC). We would like to stress co-operation between the SC22/WG20 and CEN/TC304 on Localisation and Use of Cultural Elements in ICT. We know that both parties are working quite closely together, and are exchanging much information. On behalf of the 'DS/142 u22' sub-committee Isak KORN, Chairperson. ________________ end of SC22 N2802 ______________________________