From rinehuls@Radix.Net Tue Apr 6 01:45:37 1999 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [209.48.224.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA23385; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 01:45:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rinehuls@Radix.Net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [209.48.224.40]) by mail1.radix.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA27613; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:45:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:45:29 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: CORRECTED SC22 N2909 - SC22 Response to JTC 1 Request for Comments on the ITU-T Communication Statement on Middleware 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 N2909 TITLE: SC22 Response to ISO/IEC JTC 1 Request for Comments on the Communication Statement from ITU-T Study Group 14 on Middleware DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-04-05 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: text CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2901 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 response ______________ To: Lisa Rajchel Subject: SC 22 Contribution on JTC 1 N 5776 Communication Statement from ITU-T SG 10 on Middleware As requested, we have distributed the subject document within SC 22. However, by the time we received the document and redistributed it to our working groups and members, there was almost no time left to examine it and comment on its contents by the deadline. I am sure that most recipients have probably not yet seen, much less had an opportunity to study, the document. We did, however, receive a comment from one Working Group convener which we hereby contribute, as follows: "ISO/IEC 14977 (Extended BNF) is undoubtedly useful when defining interfaces, and its adoption will avoid the need for middleware standardizers to invent yet more syntactic metalanguages." Robert H. Follett Chairman JTC 1/SC 22 ____________________________ end of SC22 N2909 _________________________