Subject: REVISED SC22 N2819 - Request to Make IS 11404 Publicly Available - ACCELLERATED LETTER BALLOT

From: "william c. rinehuls" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:45:49 -0400 (EDT)

(Note:  This revision contains a revised Justification.  The original
closing date of 1998-12-15 for the SC22 letter ballot attached has not
been changed.  Please replace the originally transmitted SC22 N2819 with
the following document.)

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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
N2819 (revised)

TITLE:
Request to ISO/IEC JTC 1 to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 Publicly Available -
ACCELLERATED LETTER BALLOT

DATE ASSIGNED:
1998-09-18

SOURCE:
Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22

BACKWARD POINTER:
N/A

DOCUMENT TYPE:
SC22 Letter Ballot

PROJECT NUMBER:
N/A

STATUS:
SC22/WG11 has requested that action on this request take place at the
January 1999 ISO/IEC JTC 1 Meeting.  It is necessary that an accellerated
SC22 letter ballot be issued to obtain SC22 approval in advance of that
meeting and in time to meet the previously established cut-off date for
distribution of JTC 1 documents for that meeting.

ACTION IDENTIFIER:
ACT

DUE DATE:
1998-12-15

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:  [email-masked]

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Attachment to
JTC 1/SC22 N2819

Circulation Date: 1998-09-18

                           LETTER BALLOT

FROM THE MEMBER BODY OF _______________________________________

On WG11 Request to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 Publicly Available Using the
Justification Contained in Document SC22 N2819 (Revised)

This Letter Ballot is to be returned by each "P" Member Body to the
Secretariat of JTC 1/SC22 by DECEMBER 15, 1998.

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_____  We approve this Request for forwarding to ISO/IEC JTC 1

                    or

_____  We approve this Request for forwarding to ISO/IEC JTC 1 with the
       attached comments

                    or

_____  We do not agree that this Request be forwarded to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for
       the technical reasons attached to this ballot

                    or

_____  We abstain from voting

("P" Members have an obligation to vote.)

*  PLACE AN "x" ON APPLICABLE LINE.

Name ____________________________________

Signature (if mailed) ____________________    Date:  ___________

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Justification to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent
                      Datatypes - Publicly Available

	ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent Datatypes is a
	so-called ``enabling'' (or model) standard:
	ISO/IEC 11404 supports the specification and development
	of tools and services by specifiying the nomenclature and
	shared semantics for a collection of datatypes commonly
	occurring in programming languages and services. 
	A single product can never conform to ISO/IEC 11404 alone:
	ISO/IEC 11404 is used by other standards as a basis for
	their datatypes, so conformance of a product to ISO/IEC 11404
	will always be indirect.

	In order to maximise the utilisation of ISO/IEC 11404, not
	only within ISO and IEC, but also in other standardization
	groups, SC22 requests that it be permitted that ISO/IEC 11404
	is publicly available.

	Due to the nature of ISO/IEC 11404, this standard is a
	``standard for standards writers'' rather than a ``product''
	standard, and making this standard publicly available will
	support the standardization process in general.

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