From rinehuls@Radix.Net Mon Sep 27 23:23:13 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 XAA63522; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:23:13 +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 RAA21775; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:24:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22info@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N3004 - Netherlands National Body Activity Report (fwd) 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 N3004 SUBJECT: Netherlands National Body Activity Report for the September 1999 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-09-27 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: National Body Activity Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: N/A 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 _______________ National Activity Report from the Netherlands to the SC22 Plenary, Berlin (Germany) 20-23 September 1999 The Dutch Programming Language Committee has currently 17 members and meets 2-3 times per year to discuss SC22 issues and, when necessary, relevant JTC1 documents. There is active participation from the Netherlands in the SC22 WGs on COBOL, Fortran, Ada, bindings, C, Modula-2, POSIX and C++ . Other SC22 projects, such as APL, M(umps), VDM, Prolog and Internationalization are followed on a more individual basis. Like in other National Bodies, the Dutch SC22 committee is suffering from funding problems: it proves very difficult to find participants (with supportive employers) who are willing to sacrifice time to review documents and come to meetings (this is not the hard part), but who are also willing and able to pay the required NNI fee. A solution to this problem is clearly not obvious, and there is a risc that (the solution of) this problem may have consequences for international participation of Dutch experts. PTR 14369 - Guidelines for the preparation of Language-Independent Service Specifications (LISS) was approved by JTC1 without any comment; therefore the documents were sent to ITTF 'as is' for publication. However, the final proof that was sent to the editor (member of the Dutch SC22 panel) for approval appeared to be changed by ITTF without any comment or clarification as to why the changes were made. The changes were in two areas: the definition clause was changed (making it inconsistent with other parts of the document), and the previously approved dedication of the document to Brian Meek was removed. After a strongly worded disapproval of this course of action, ITTF has now prepared a proof that is corrected in these areas. It is the position of the Dutch SC22 committee that this way of handling proofs by ITTF is counterproductive and should be avoided. W. F. Wakker, Chairman September 1999 __________________________ end of SC22 N3004 __________________________