Subject: Document SC22 N2240

From: "william c. rinehuls" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:33:30 -0400 (EDT)

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
N2240

August 1996

TITLE:                WG11 Convener's Report for the September 1996
                      JTC 1/SC22 Plenary

SOURCE:               Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22

WORK ITEM:            N/A

STATUS:               N/A

CROSS REFERENCE:      N/A

DOCUMENT TYPE:        Convener's Report

ACTION:               To SC22 Member Bodies for information or action
                      as applicable.

                      This Convener's Report will be an agenda item for
                      the September 1996 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary.

Address reply to:
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat
William C. Rinehuls
8457 Rushing Creek Court
Springfield, VA 22153  USA
Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680
Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973
email:  [email-masked]

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WG11 Convener report to SC22, July 1996       SC22/WG11 N433

1.  Meetings

The following meetings of SC22/WG11 were held since the last report:

September 25-27, 1995	Gaithersburg (MD), U.S.A.
April 15-19, 1996	Copenhagen, Denmark

There is currently no next meeting planned.

2.  WG11 Participation

Participation in WG11 continues to be a point of concern.  Although the
situation is better than before (active participation from Japan and Sweden
at the last meetings), the fact it is still basically a `one person per
country representation' could make attendance at meetings unpredictable.
Also, the fact that some representatives are only interested in one WG11
project and not in the other projects makes the picture look better than it
actually is.

Therefore SC22 Member Bodies are urgently requested to continue to pay
attention to the support for the WG11 activities.

3.  Work Item JTC1.22.16 - Common Procedure Calling Mechanism

This project is finalized: the document is published by ITTF as
ISO/IEC 13886:1996.

4.  Work Item JTC1.22.17 - Language Independent Datatypes

This project is finalized: the document is to be published by ITTF as
ISO/IEC 11404:1996.

5.  Work Item JTC1.22.28 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1

This project is finalized: the document is published as ISO/IEC 10967-
1:1994.

6.  Work Item JTC1.22.33 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 2

The first CD was distributed to SC22 as SC22 N2021 for combined
registration and CD ballot.  Both ballots passed.  However, seeing the
amount of comments received on the document, WG11 has decided to produce a
second CD 10967-2.  This document is expected to be available for CD ballot
by the end of August 1996.

7.  Work Item JTC1.22.34 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 3

The work on this part of IS 10967 (on complex arithmetic and procedures)
will follow (in time) the work on part 2,

8.  Language Independent Service Specifications

As with many WG11 projects, participation in this project remains a
problem.  Furthermore, there is no official project-editor for the project,
although reasonable progress has been made thanks to the efforts of
Mr. Brian Meek.  Pending the resolution of this problem the convener will
act as project editor.

A more or less complete draft of this document is expected by 4Q96.

9.  Liaisons

Liaisons exist with the following SC22 WGs: WG2 - Pascal, WG3 - APL, WG4 -
COBOL, WG9 - Ada, WG14 - C, WG15 - POSIX, WG20 - Internationalization and
WG22 - PCTE.  Also, liaison representatives from SC24 (Graphics) and SC26
(Micro Processors) to WG11 have been appointed.

Informal liaisons also exists with SC22/WG13 - Modula-2, SC22/WG17 - Prolog
and SC2 - Characters.

10.  Contact points

Drs. Willem Wakker
	  ACE Consulting bv
	  Van Eeghenstraat 100
	  1071 GL AMSTERDAM
	  Nederland
Phone:	  +31	20 6646416
Fax:	  +31	20 6750389
Email:	  [email-masked]
Remark:   Convener SC22/WG11

Mr. Edward Barkmeyer
	  National Institute of Standards and Technology
	  Building 225, Mail Stop B-266
	  Gaithersburg MD 20899
	  U.S.A.
Phone:	  +1	301 975 3528
Fax:	  +1	301 258 9749
Email:	  [email-masked]
Remark:   Project Editor Language Independent Datatypes

Mr. Craig Schaffert
	  DEC, Cambridge Research Lab
	  One Kendall Square, Bldg 700
	  Cambridge MA 02139
	  U.S.A.
Phone:	  +1	617 621 6617
Fax:	  +1	617 621 6650
Email:	  [email-masked]
Remark:   Project Editor Language Independent Arithmetic

Ms. Mary Payne
	  Digital Equipment Corporation
	  129 Parker Street
	  Maynard MA 01754
	  U.S.A.
Phone:	  +1	508 493 2586
Fax:	  +1	508 493 3608
Email:	  [email-masked]
Remark:   Project Editor Language Independent Arithmetic

Mr. Paul Rabin
	  Open Software Foundation
	  11 Cambridge Center
	  Cambridge MA 02142
	  U.S.A.
Phone:	  +1	617 621 8873
Fax:	  +1	617 621 0584
Remark:   Liaison with SC22/WG15 - POSIX

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:	  [email-masked]
Remark:   Liaison with SC22/WG2 - Pascal

Dr. Eke Batenburg
	  RUL, Instituut voor Theoretische Biologie
	  Kaiserstraat 63
	  2311 GP LEIDEN
	  Nederland
Phone:	  +31	71 274900
Fax:	  +31	71 274972
Email:	  [email-masked]
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:	  [email-masked]
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	3120 8948
Email:	  [email-masked]
Remark:   Liaison with SC22/WG14 - C and SC22/WG20 Internationalization

Mr. Christof Blum
	  Fraunhofer-Computer Graphics Research Group
	  Wilhelminenstr. 7
	  W-6100 DARMSTADT
	  Germany
Phone:	  +49	6151 155 145
Fax:	  +49	6151 155 194
Remark:   Liaison with SC24 - Computer Graphics

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

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