From mdeane@ANSI.org Mon Mar 19 20:51:37 2001 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA41346 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:51:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:51:18 -0500 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2194BD2@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3225 - Request to JTC 1 for Public Availability of ISO/IE C 13886 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:51:14 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N 3225 TITLE: Request to JTC 1 for Public Availability of ISO/IEC 13886 - Language-Independent Procedure Calling (LIPC) DATE ASSIGNED: 2000-03-19 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other document (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: 22.16 STATUS: This request has been sent to the JTC 1 Secretariat for approval. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: E-mail CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org _______ end of title page; beginning of document ______________ > Justification to make ISO/IEC 13886:1996 - Language Independent > Procedure Calling - Publicly Available > JTC 1 rejected the original request to make ISO/IEC 13886 publicly available at the Tromsoe Plenary. It is the understanding of SC22 that this was based upon the anticipation that ISO/IEC 13886 would have been included in the ISO Market Trial for making standards freely available. As the scope of the Market Trial is still under debate within ISO, this request for public availability is sent to JTC 1 for reconsideration. > ISO/IEC 13886:1996 - Language Independent Procedure Calling > is a so-called ``enabling'' (or model) standard: > ISO/IEC 13886 supports the specification and development > of tools and services by specifying a model of procedure > calling that can be mapped on the various procedure calling > models, found in programming languages and services, together > with the related nomenclature and shared semantics. > > A single product can never conform to ISO/IEC 13886 alone: > ISO/IEC 13886 is used by other standards as a basis for > their procedure calling mechanisms, so conformance of a > product to ISO/IEC 13886 will always be indirect. > In order to maximise the utilisation of ISO/IEC 13886, not > only within ISO and IEC, but also in other standardization > groups, SC22 requests that it be permitted that ISO/IEC 13886 > is publicly available. > > Due to the nature of ISO/IEC 13886, this standard is a > ``standard for standards writers'' rather than a ``product'' > standard, and making this standard publicly available will > support the standardization process in general. > > ISO/IEC 13886 has, for the specification of the datatypes > of the procedural arguments, a very strong relationship > (and shares a common Interface Definition Notation with) > ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent Datatypes; > public availability of ISO/IEC 11404 was granted by JTC1 > in January 1999. > SC22 approved the public availability of ISO/IEC 13886 per Resolution 00-14 taken at the JTC 1/SC22 Plenary in Nara, Japan, 2000-09-12/15.