From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Aug 14 18:08:08 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA07494 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:08:06 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA04755 ; for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:08:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:08:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: Document SC22 N2242 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2242 August 1996 TITLE: United Kingdom National Activity Report for the JTC 1/SC22 September 1996 Plenary Meeting SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: N/A CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: United Kingdom National Activity Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for information. This document will be discussed under Agenda Item 7.2 at 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: rinehuls@access.digex.net ___________________________________________________________________________ UK national activity report, September 1995 to September 1996 General The UK equivalent of SC22 is BSI IST/5 Programming Languages. At the end of December 1995 Andrew Walker, X/Open, completed his three-year term of office as IST/5 chairman. We are sure that SC22 will wish to join us in thanking Andrew for his many contributions to language standards work during his chairmanship. We are pleased to report that he remains a member of IST/5 and so his expertise and experience will remain available to the language standards community. Andrew has been succeeded as chairman by Brian Meek, Kings College London, who was previously chairman in 1984-87 covering the transition from ISO/TC97 SC5 to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22. For various reasons he has requested that this appointment be for 1996 only, and not for the usual three years. Technical work Almost all of the technical work of IST/5 is in relation to SC22 projects, and it maintains technical panels which coordinate the UK contribution to the SC22 WGs in which the UK is active. These panels advise IST/5 on matters such as letter ballots. In September 1995 the UK provided the secretariat and convenor for WG5 Fortran, WG13 Modula-2, WG17 Prolog and WG19 Formal Specification Languages, in the case of WG19 maintaining technical panels for both VDM-SL and for Z. However, as SC22 members will know, since then IST/5 received with regret the resignation of Mark Woodman as convenor of WG13, and having consulted the Modula-2 panel, recommended that BSI relinquish the secretariat of WG13. With the standard for the Modula-2 base language being virtually completed, the primary objective of the UK in establishing the project and proposing it to SC22 had been achieved, and it seemed an appropriate time to let others take over the later developments. Again, we are sure that others in SC22 will join us in thanking Mark Woodman, and his predecessor Roger Henry, for what they have done. The UK intends to continue to participate actively in WG13. We are also active in, and maintain panels for, WG4 Cobol, WG9 Ada, WG11 Bindings, WG14 C, WG15 Posix, WG16 Lisp, WG21 C++ and WG22 PCTE. We are not currently active in, and do not have panels for, WG3 APL and WG20 Internationalisation. Syntactic metalanguage IST/5 has long been responsible for one project outside SC22, the UK national standard BS6154, Method of Defining Syntactic Metalanguage (there are historical reasons for this strange name!). As the records of SC22 and its predecessor SC5 show, it was always our wish that this national standard should become, or be replaced by, an international standard, but for various reasons this wish had until recently remained unfulfilled. The introduction of the fast-track procedure provided a straightforward way of achieving this ambition, and BSI accepted IST/5's proposal that the UK submit BS6154 for fast-track balloting. As SC22 members know, the ballot succeeded as DIS 14977. Comments were limited enough that it has been possible to deal with them by electronic mail discussion, without the need for a ballot resolution meeting. We have been fortunate enough to have the original project editor for BS6154, Roger Scowen, available and willing to guide us through this process, and we would like to thank him for his efforts. Once ISO/IEC 14977 is published, IST/5 will recommend to BSI that BS6154 be withdrawn in its favour. _________________________ end of document N2242 _____________________