From rinehuls@Radix.Net Fri Sep 3 00:13:08 1999 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [207.192.128.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA85682; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:13:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rinehuls@Radix.Net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mail1.radix.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA22598; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:13:44 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls Reply-To: William Rinehuls To: sc22info@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2983 - Japan National Body Activity Report for SC22 Plenary - 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 N2983 TITLE: Japan National Body Activity Report for the September 1999 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary - PLENARY AGENDA ITEM DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-09-02 SOURCE Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Activity 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: 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: rinehuls@radix.net ______________ end of title page; beginning of report __________________ Japan National Activity Report to the Plenary Meeting of JTC 1/SC22 September 1999 1. National Activities for International Standardization SC22 of Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan (ITSCJ) is working as a Japanese National Committee for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22. SC22 meetings are held 6 times per year and some additional ad-hoc meetings. There are ten working groups (COBOL WG, Fortran WG, Ada WG, C WG, Lisp WG, Prolog WG, POSIX WG, C++ WG, Internationalization WG, and Language Independent Issues WG) and one study group (Java SG) under this committee to cope with activities of JTC1/SC22. VDM/SL and Z are covered by another group (Formal Description Technique SubWorking Group) in ITSCJ with close liaison with our SC22. There are no corresponding WGs to WG3 (APL), WG13 (Modula-2), or WG22 (PCTE). Java SG Japanese Java SG invited ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 22/Java SG Tokyo meeting in October 1998, where various aspects on Java standardization were discussed; such issues as on handling international character sets, real-time, profiles, compiling techniques, numerical representation. >From this July, it has re-directed its effort to ECMA TC 41, a newly formed body for Java standardization, expecting to contribute the actual outcome. COBOL WG COBOL WG is participating very actively both of SC22/WG4 meetings and ANSI/COBOL (NCISTS J4) meetings. Japan is strongly interested in facilities of MOCS and Object Orientation of the next COBOL Standard. Fortran WG Fortran WG has continued its active participation with SC22/WG5. We responded one FCD ballot (Part 2: Varying length character strings) and one FDIS ballot (Part 3: Conditional Compilation). Translation of ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997 into Japanese was published as the JIS Fortran standard. Fortran WG found out several defect items during the translation and will send its list to Primary Development Body soon. And also translation work of ISO/IEC 1539-3:1999 into Japanese was started. Ada WG Ada WG continued its active participation with SC22/WG9. A JIS standard of Ada 95, corresponding to ISO/IEC 8652:1995, will be prepared by the end of March 2000. We do not translate the whole standard into Japanese. Most parts of the JIS standard will refer to the English version of the international standard. Language Independent Issues WG This WG is the corresponding WG for SC22/WG11. Japanese delegate is participating in SC22/WG11 meetings actively. C WG C WG has been debating on revision of C (C9X) with other member bodies of WG14 via email and by attending WG14 meeting. C WG has suggested several improvements, corrections and proposals via email and vote of FCD. All of such comments had already been resolved by discussion among WG14 and C WG, and incorporated into FDIS in an appropriate manner. C WG will begin to translate of FDIS at this October for preparing JIS C standard corresponding with C9X. POSIX WG POSIX WG is participating in document review and balloting activities of SC22/WG15. For more effective and active participation to POSIX related works, Japanese POSIX WG is being reorganized. Lisp WG Members of Lisp WG have contributed to establishing the JIS standard for ISLisp (JIS X 3012 - 1998). The WG is now standing by for the future work on ISLisp. Prolog WG Prolog WG has been working mainly on Part 2 - Modules for several years, and sending delegations to most of SC22/WG17 meetings. Members of Prolog WG are working on translation of a summary of Prolog Part 1: General Core, ISO/IEC 13211-1 to make a JIS standard. Formal Description Technique Sub Working Group (FDT-SWG) This SWG is the corresponding WG for SC22/WG19 and is actively reviewing not only Z but also VDM-SL. Internationalization WG This WG meets once a month regularly, inviting, when necessary, specialists from various fields. Japan constantly attends the SC22/WG20 meetings and gives many ballot comments. C++ WG C++ WG has contributed to the effort primarily in areas of particular interests such as extended characters, strings, locales and I/O streams by creating and reviewing proposals. And now translation work of ISO/IEC 14882:1998 into Japanese has been started. 2. Development of National Standards The Japanese national standard is known as Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS). The current status of JISs in the area of SC 22 is as follows: 1) Established JISs - Fortran Part 1 (JIS X 3001-1 - 1998) = ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997 - Fortran Part 2 (JIS X 3001-2 - 1998) = ISO/IEC 1539-2:1994 - COBOL (JIS X 3002 - 1992) = ISO/IEC 1989:1985 + AMD 1 - Full BASIC (JIS X 3003 - 1993) = ISO/IEC 10279: 1991 - Pascal (JIS X 3008 - 1994) = ISO/IEC 7185:1990 - Ada (JIS X 3009 - 1991) = ISO/IEC 8652:1987 - C (JIS X 3010 - 1996) = ISO/IEC 9899:1990 + AMD 1:1995 - MUMPS (JIS X 3011 - 1995) = ISO/IEC 11756:1990 - ISLisp (JIS X 3012 - 1998) = ISO/IEC 13816:1997 - POSIX Part 1 (JIS X 3030- 1994) = ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 2) JISs to be established in FY 1999 - POSIX Part 2 = ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 - Prolog Part 1: General Core = ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995 3) Draft JISs being prepared in FY 1999 - Ada (JIS X 3009 - 2000) = ISO/IEC 8652:1995 - C = ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (to be completed in 2000) - C++ = ISO/IEC 14882:1998 (to be completed in 2000) - Fortran Part 3 = ISO/IEC 1539-3:1999 - TR: Guidelines for Programming Language Standards Preparation = ISO/IEC TR 10176 - TR: Framework for Internationalization = ISO/IEC TR 11017 _____________________________ end of SC22 N2983 _______________________