From rinehuls@Radix.Net Mon Sep 27 23:30:14 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 XAA63556; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:30:14 +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 RAA23532; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:31:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:31:07 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22info@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N3005 - Denmark National Body Activity Report 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 N3005 SUBJECT: Denmark 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 _______________ ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 N3005 National Body of Denmark Activity Report to the Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, September 1999, Berlin - Germany Since last year's plenary meeting in Denmark the Danish NB has been active in several working groups, varying efforts being put into the individual groups. The Danish experts have allocated resources especially to following subject areas: C (WG 14) POSIX (WG 15) Internationalization (WG 20) C++ (WG 21) Java Study Group (SC 22/JSG) Moreover, some of the experts are showing interests in and make efforts to follow development in areas like: Pascal, Ada and Modula 2, as well as Formal Description Techniques. As a national delegation of Denmark to this plenary meeting, we would like to stress that like many other small countries also Denmark suffers from a lack of experts to involve in standardization work. Another major problem is related to the workload which is going to be accepted by the experts. Since JTC1 expect that standards will be developed within tight time schedules, which are not always realistically assessed, and developing a programming language or look-alike standards is not that easy, and it is not progressing so fast as standards from other areas (communication etc.). Since Denmark has only SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) it is extremely hard to convince the companies to offer resources to standardization work, and it will definitely not be possible to recruit a full-time standardization expert. The Danish delegation would like to see raised a discussion - during the plenary meeting - on methods and ways to improve the work of SC22 in future in order to better attract new experts. ___________________________ end of SC22 N3005 _________________________