From rinehuls@access.digex.net Thu Jun 20 22:21:31 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA12616; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 22:21:25 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA20150 ; for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:21:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:21:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22 , sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings: It has just been brought to the attention of the Secretariat by Mr. Pierre Parquier, Convener of WG16 that the current DIS 13816 ballot in JTC 1 does not carry the title intended by WG16. The title of DIS 13816 is "Information technology - Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces - LISP". It was the intention of WG16 that the title be "Information technology - Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces - ISLIP". While this change in project title and DIS title were never processed by SC22, it was clearly the intention of WG16 that the "ISLIP" title be the one used for the DIS. The major reason for this title is that the Lisp community doesn't want lisp's long history to end with one dialect. WG16 has acknowledged that issuing an ISO standard named "LISP" is not acceptable for the Lisp community and have worked out a consensus on the name "ISLIP". WG16 is concerned that National Bodies will vote to "disapprove" the DIS simply because of the title. After consulting with Ms. Lisa Rajchel, JTC 1 Secretariat, I am sending this email note. Given that the title of the DIS is not the one intended, National Bodies should include in the JTC 1 ballot comments that the title should be changed to "ISLIP". If this is done, the title can be changed as part of the WG16 consideration of the comments and issuance of a Disposition of Comments Report. WG16 hopes that the National Bodies will present the requested title change in such a fashion that the DIS will not be disapproved simply because of the title but rather allowing a change in title as part of the DIS approval process. Bill Rinehuls Secretariat, JTC 1/SC22