From rinehuls@Radix.Net Wed Dec 9 23:21:06 1998 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [209.48.224.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA28110; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 23:21:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rinehuls@Radix.Net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [209.48.224.40]) by mail1.radix.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA24134; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:21:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 17:19:52 -0500 (EST) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2857 - Comments Disposition for PDTR 14369 - LISS 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 N2857 TITLE: Disposition of Comments Report for PDTR Approval of PDTR 14369: Information technology - Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces - Guidelines for the Preparation of Language Independent Service Specifications (LISS) DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-12-09 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Disposition of Comments Report PROJECT NUMBER: JTC 1.22.46 STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2849 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@radix.net ____________ end of title page; beginning of report ________________ Disposition of Comments received on the PDTR 14369 approval ballot: Guidelines for the preparation of language independent service specifications (LISS), document SC22 N2761. Comments (with a Yes vote) were received from the UK and the USA. 1. Disposition of Comments from UK All comments are accepted with one remark: - 17.1.10 - 'may introduce a change the behaviour of an implementation' lacks the word 'in', but should be deleted because 17.1.x is a list of the 'Kinds of change ...'. Response: first part accepted; second part rejected: 17.1.10 is considered a useful item on the list. 2. Disposition of comments from the US. All comments are accepted with one remark: - Item: USA-14 Reference: 4.3, para.8, note "The representational...", and elsewhere. Qualifier: Editorial Rationale: Format of internal cross-references disturbs the reader Proposal: Replace "Clause 4.5.1...below." by "subclause 4.5.1 below." or by "subclause 4.5.1, Representational assumptions, below." ---> The approach chosen here should be extended to similar references throughout the document, using "clause" or "subclause" as appropriate by ISO editorial standards. The present format, with large "tabs" between clause/subclause numbers and titles, is unacceptable. Response: accepted in principle, and implemented wherever possible without too many wording changes. The editor does not know and/or see what is intended with the "large" tabs; nothing is done on this remark. __________________ end of SC22 N2857 ________________________________