From rinehuls@Radix.Net Mon Jun 28 23:16:30 1999 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [209.48.224.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA83581; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:16:30 +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 RAA24073; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:16:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:16:14 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2939 - WG11 Convener Report and Business Plan - PLENARY AGENDA ITEM 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 N2939 TITLE: WG11 Convener Report and WG11 Business Plan for the September 1999 JTC 1/ SC22 Plenary - PLENARY AGENDA ITEM DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-06-28 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: WG Convener Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: Discussion of this document will be an agenda item for the September 1999 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N2926 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 ______________________ CONVENER REPORT AND BUSINESS PLAN FOR JTC 1/SC22 WG11 PERIOD COVERED: July 1998 - June 1999 SUBMITTED BY: W. F. Wakker (Convener JTC 1/SC22 WG11) ACE Consulting bv Van Eeghenstraat 100 1071 GL, Amsterdam, Netherlands Email: willemw@ace.nl 1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY: 1.1 JTC 1/SC22 WG11 Statement of Scope Development of ISO/IEC Standards and Technical Reports related to Binding Techniques and (Programming) Language Independent Issues. 1.2 Project Report 1.2.1 Completed Projects JTC1.22.14 -- TR 10182:1994: Language Bindings Guidelines JTC1.22.16 -- ISO/IEC 13886:1996 - Language Independent Procedure Calling JTC1.22.17 -- ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent Datatypes JTC1.22.28 -- ISO/IEC 10967-1:1994 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1: Integer and Floating Point Arithmetic 1.2.2 Projects Underway JTC1.22.33 -- (F)CD 10967-2 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 2: Elementary Numerical Functions The 4th FCD is expected in August 1999. JTC1.22.33 -- WD 10967-3 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 3: Complex Floating Point Arithmetic and Complex Elementary Numerical Functions The work on this part of IS 10967 will follow (in time) the work on part 2. JTC1.22.46 -- DTR 14369 - Guidelines for the Preparation of Language Independent Service Specifications The DTR is approved by JTC1 and is awaiting publication by ITTF. 1.3 Cooperation and Competition The WG11 documents are mainly produced to be used by other programming language committees. Therefore, WG11 maintains liaisons with many of the SC22 WGs. 2. PERIOD REVIEW 2.1 Market Requirements There are no clearly defined market requirements for the WG11 projects; however several ISO/IEC standards make reference to the documents. There is thus apparently an indirect market requirement. 2.2 Achievements Despite the sometimes small participation in WG11, a number of high quality ISO standards have been produced. 2.3 Resources WG11 resources have been a problem for the past years, and continue to be so. Attendance is very low, and project editors are difficult to find. 3. FOCUS NEXT WORK PERIOD 3.1 Deliverables The LIA-2 project should progress to DIS stage and a first WD for LIA-3 should be prepared. stages. 3.2 Strategies 3.2.1 Risks Participation is a clear risk for the progression of the WG11 work. The SC22 Member Bodies are invited to provide resources so that WG11 at least can finalize its current work items. 3.2.2 Opportunities No further opportunities have been identified. 3.2.3 Work Program Priorities The finalization of LIA-2 has the highest priority. 4. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION 4.1 WG11 Liaisons Liaisons exist with the following SC22 WGs: WG2 - Pascal, WG3 - APL, WG4 - COBOL, WG9 - Ada, WG14 - C, WG20 - Internationalization and WG22 - PCTE. Also, a liaison representative from SC26 (Micro Processors) to WG11 has been appointed. Informal liaisons also exists with SC22/WG13 - Modula-2, SC22/WG17 - Prolog and SC2 - Characters. 4.2 Contact Points Drs. Willem Wakker ACE Consulting bv Van Eeghenstraat 100 1071 GL AMSTERDAM Nederland Phone: +31 20 6646416 Fax: +31 20 6750389 Email: willemw@ace.nl Remark: Convener SC22/WG11 Mr. Tom Turba Unisys Corporation P.O. Box 64942 St. Paul MN 55164-0942 U.S.A. Phone: +1 612 635 6774 Fax: +1 612 635 3899 Email: turba@rsvl.unisys.com Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG2 - Pascal Dr. Eke van Batenburg RUL, Instituut voor Theoretische Biologie Kaiserstraat 63 2311 GP LEIDEN Nederland Phone: +31 71 274900 Fax: +31 71 274972 Email: Batenburg@rulsfb.LeidenUniv.nl Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG3 - APL Mr. Donald Nelson Tandem Computers Inc. 5425 Stevens Creek Blvd. Santa Clara CA 95051-7200 U.S.A. Phone: +1 408 285 5203 Fax: +1 408 285 5245 Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG4 - COBOL Mr. Bill Carlson Intermetrics Inc. 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge MA 02138 U.S.A. Phone: +1 617 661 1840 Fax: +1 617 868 2843 Email: carlson@inmet.inmet.com Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG9 - ADA Mr. Keld Simonsen DKnet/DS Sankt Joergens Alle 8 DK-1615 COPENHAGEN V Denmark Phone: +45 3917 9944 Fax: +45 3920 8948 Email: keld@dkuug.dk Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG14 - C and SC22/WG20 Internationalization Dr. Richard Karpinski University of California San Francisco U-76 San Francisco CA 94143-0704 U.S.A. Phone: +1 415 476 4529 Remark: Liaison with SC26 - Micro Processors 5. SC22 PLENARY ACTIONS RELATED TO WG11 5.1 Projects Not Reaching CD Stage Within Three Years of NP Approval With reference to SC22 N2926: LIA-3 (project 22.34) will be produced after LIA-2 has become stable and is well underway. A first draft for SC22 Review and Comment is expected by fall 1999. Therefore, WG11 requests SC22 to authorize an extension of the project. __________________________ end of SC22 N2939 _______________________