From rinehuls@access.digex.net Tue Sep 1 01:01:07 1998 Received: from access1.digex.net (qlYBsVTekvXHY@access1.digex.net [205.197.245.192]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12280; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:01:04 +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 RAA15057; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:49:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:49:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2803 - Canada 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 N2803 TITLE: Canada National Body Activity Report for the August 1998 SC22 Plenary DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-08-24 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 ______________ Canada National Body Activity Report September 1997 - August 1998 The Canadian SC22 standards group is the Canadian Standards Association Committee on Programming Languages (CSA/CPL). In April 1998 Graham Warren resigned as chair of this group. Stephen Michell, Maurya Software, Ottawa, Canada, steve@maurya.on.ca is replacing Graham as chair. Technical work Almost all of the technical work on CSA/CPL is for SC22 projects. National working groups co-ordinate the Canadian contributions to the work of SC22. Canadian participants are active in APL, Ada, Modula-2, C, POSIX, C++, Internationalization and Formal Specification Languages. Concerns Active participation in language standards work is a concern. We are having difficulty recruiting new members and obtaining corporate involvement in language standards work. The electronic exchange of documents continues to be a concern. None of the proposed exchange formats has been readable by everyone on our working groups. The ISO copywrite issues are a concern. In the WD and CD stages, documents must be as openly available for review and discussion as possible. ISO copywrite and document availability policies hamper these activities and encourage standards to be developed in other forums, which hampers true international overview and acceptance of many of these standards. ___________________ end of SC22 N2803 __________________________