From Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Mon Sep 30 10:07:36 1996 Received: from oxmail4.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA12892 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:07:28 +0100 Received: from vax.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP); Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:01:08 +0100 Received: from 163.1.85.1 by vax.ox.ac.uk (MX V4.2 VAX) with SMTP; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:00:20 +0100 X-Sender: MELLIS@vax.ox.ac.uk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:00:40 +0100 To: sc22wg5 From: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk (Miles Ellis) Subject: SC22 Plenary As some of you will know, last week was the SC22 Plenary in London, which I attended as Convenor of WG5. I shall send out a short informal report later this week, but in the meantime I thought that WG5 members might be interested in the formal results of the meeting that affect Fortran and WG5. The following resolutions relate to Fortran (note that the final numbers will be different): Resolution 96-LON4: Project Editor for JTC1.22.02.01.03 SC22 appoints Mr Michael Hennecke (DE) as project editor for JTC1.22.02.01.03 - Interoperability Between Fortran and C (TR, type 2). Resolution 96-LON5: Fortran "Enhanced data type facilities" SC22 resolves to modify the scope of JTC1.22.02.01.04 in accordance with SC22 resolution 95-5, to cover allocatable components, allocatable dummy arguments and allocatable function results (but not parameterized derived types), and to change the title to "Enhanced Data Type Facilities" (TR type 2). Resolution 96-LON6: Fortran conditional compilation SC22 resolves to subdivide project JTC1.22.02 to create a new project (JTC1.22.02.03) for the production of part 3 of the Fortran standard IS 1539 on the topic of "Conditional Compilation in Fortran". SC22 appoints David Epstein (US) as project editor for this project. SC22 authorizes the SC22 secretariat to conduct a concurrent ballot for CD registration and approval of the CD for the project. Resolution 96-LON7: Fortran ballots SC22 authorizes its secretariat to conduct a concurrent ballot for PDTR registration and approval of the PDTRs for the following projects: JTC1.22.02.01.02 Floating point exception handling JTC1.22.02.01.03 Interoperability between Fortran and C JTC1.22.02.01..04 Enhanced data type facilities These are all straightforward, and are what I asked for on behalf of WG5. Resolution 96-LON28: Withdrawal of WG5 and WG14 synchronization plans Whereas the Fortran and C projects are now I-projects in X3, and there is thus no need for synchronization of independent SC22 and ANSI projects, SC22 resolves to withdraw the synchronization plans for WG5 and WG14. This relates to the synchronisation plans that several working groups were required to produce to ensure that JTC1 and SC22 balloting was in sync with US Public Reviews, where the technical work was being carried out by a US Technical Committee. Since the introduction of 'I' projects by X3, this is no longer necessary, as the I project process ensures synchronisation. Resolution 96-LON43: Input on JTC1 ad hoc on implementation of IT SC22 approves N2293 and N2294 as its input to the JTC1 ad hoc on implementation of IT in London September 1996. SC22 authorizes its chairman Mr Bob Follett to participate in the ad hoc on behalf of SC22. N2293 is concerned with JTC1's moves towards electronic distribution of documents by electronic means, including the restriction of the availability of some electronic documents by some form of "access control" (e.g. passwords). SC22 is more advanced than many of the other JTC1 Sub-Committees in this regard - not least in having already moved beyond "Stage 1 - distribution by diskette". We had a number of suggestions for improving the JTC1 proposals, including making html an acceptable distribution format; at present acceptable formats are rtf, Word 2.0+. WordPerfect 5.1+ and Acrobat (pdf) - but NOT PostScript, which was removed at the last revision. N2294 relates to the action by ISO in extending its copyright to CDs and WDs; at present it only applies to DISs. SC22 strongly deplored this, and has formally urged JTC1 to request exemption for JTC1 and its subordinate bodies (SCs, WGs, etc). N2294 also refers to the proposals by ISO that all working documents should be restricted to individuals and organisations that are formally part of the ISO process. If taken literally it would ban email messages on technical issues being copied to the WG5 list and other lists such as comp-fortran-90! More seriously, it would ban technical proposals being discussed with people outside the formal standards process. Again, SC22 strongly deplored this, and has formally urged JTC1 to request exemption for JTC1 and its subordinate bodies. The JTC1 Ad Hoc meeting referred to in the Resolution takes place on ~Monaday and Tuesday this week in London, and is the third in the series. It will be attended by representatives from member bodies (at the JTC1 level) and SCs. I was (for my sins ;-) Convenor of the SC22 Ad Hoc that discussed these issues, and the two papers that we produced, referred to in the resolution, will be sent in separate emails for those interested to read. Two other points from the Plenary: 1. JTC1 had requested all member bodies to grade all projects as A (actively participating), B (not participating, but considered to be important), or C (of no interest). We spent some time analysing the (incomplete) returns from member bodies, and Fortran's projects came out, as we would hope, as amongst the most important in the SC22 portfolio. 2. We have a new member body interested in participating in WG5, namely Finland - in the person of Petri Mahonen from the Department of Physics at the University of Oulu. He expects to be at our Las Vegas meeting in February. I shall try to deal with any email messages over the next few days, but there appear to be about 300 new ones so it may take a little while! Miles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Miles Ellis Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford, 37-41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND Telephone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527 Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/Personal/Miles/Miles_Ellis.html