From Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Mon Nov 25 12:41:56 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 MAA12189 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:40:54 +0100 Received: from vax.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP); Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:39:36 +0000 Received: from 163.1.85.1 by vax.ox.ac.uk (MX V4.2 VAX) with SMTP; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:39:33 +0000 X-Sender: MELLIS@vax.ox.ac.uk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:41:20 +0000 To: sc22wg5 From: Miles Ellis Subject: Revised Agenda for Las Vegas joint meeting with X3J3 During the recent X3J3, which I attended, Jerry Wagener and I produced a revised agenda for the February meeting, together with a timetable for when the various items will be dealt with. The revised agenda is on the WG5 server as N1234, but I am also distributing it by email to ensure that everyone sees it in good time. As you know, it is intended that this meeting should concentrate almost exclusively on finalising the requirements for Fortran 2000, and many of the more routine agenda items are either being dealt with by written report only or are being deferred to the summer meeting in Vienna. Two technical items that will need some time in Las Vegas are the TR on Interoperability with C and the Part 3 on Conditional Comilation. It is proposed to have evening meetings on Monday and Wednesday (Tuesday evening is reserved for a social event) to review the draft documents for these two projects and to limit full committee discussion of them to the discussion of any proposed resolutions. The bulk of the meeting will be spent in subgroups, first to refine requirements, and secondly to develop technical positions on these requirements. I shall be asking all those planning to attend the meeting to indicate in advance which subgroup they wish to attend in order that the membership of the subgroups can be finalised, as far as possible, before the meeting itself. =46inally, I should remind everyone that the cut-off date for making reservations at the Sunrise Suites (at the remarkably good price of $40 per night) is January 6th (see N1232). I stayed at the hotel during the recent X3J3 meeting and it is very pleasant, with suites containing a sitting room/kitchenette, bedroom and bathroom (with two TVs - one in the sitting room and one in the bedroom). The hotel has a small delicatessen attached, where one can purchase the usual 'deli' fare, but there is no restaurant. However, there are a large number of restaurants within 5-10 minutes by car, and a couple that are within walking distance. The distractions of "The Strip" are about five miles to the west, although the hotel runs a (free) shuttle to both the airport and the Strip at regular intervals throughout the day. Otherwise it's a 15 minute car drive or a $15 taxi ride. I hope that many non-US members will be able to attend as this is an important meeting for the future of Fortran, as well as being the first joint WG5/X3J3 meeting. Miles ---------------------- Revised WG5 Agenda ------------------------ Draft Agenda ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1234 Joint Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 and ANSI/X3J3 =46ebruary 10-14, 1997 Sunrise Suites, 4575 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89121, USA Monday, February 10 0830 - 2200 Tuesday, February 11 0830 - 1730 Wednesday, February 12 0830 - 2200 Thursday, February 13 0830 - 1730 Friday, February 14 0830 - 1730 Note that this meeting is a joint meeting of ANSI/X3J3 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5, and is a full meeting of each committee. Agenda items marked with a # will be chaired by the Chairman of X3J3, agenda items marked with ## will be chaired by the respective development body project editors, and other agenda items will be chaired by the Convenor of WG5. The major item of business is the finalisation of the content for the next revision of Fortran (Fortran 2000), and the commencement of technical work on some of the items therein. A substantial part of the meeting will be devoted to working in subgroups, with subgroup heads chosen equally from the WG5 and X3J3 membership. In order to expedite matters, items preceded by an asterisk will not have any agenda time and will be the subject of written reports only. Moreover, it is intended to operate the meeting to a detailed timetable, which will be confirmed under agenda item 2.5. The provisional timetable is appended to this revised agenda. 1. Opening of the Meeting: 8.30 am, February 10, 1997 #2. Opening business 2.1 Introductory remarks from the WG5 Convenor and the X3J3 Chair 2.2 Local arrangements 2.3 Appointments for this meeting 2.4 Meeting objectives 2.5 Adoption of the Agenda 2.6 Approval of the Minutes of the Dresden WG5 Meeting 2.7 Approval of the Minutes of X3J3 Meeting #139 2.8 Other opening business *3. Status of Dresden Resolutions 4. Reports 4.1 Urgent SC22 and X3 Matters *4.2 National Activity Reports (Heads of Delegations) 4.3 Report from Primary Development Body (X3J3 Chair) 4.4 Reports from other Development Bodies (Editors/Heads) *4.5 Liaison Reports *5. Defect Management Issues 5.1 Fortran 90 5.2 Fortran Part 2 - Varying Length Strings 5.3 Fortran Part 1 - Fortran 95 ##6. Processing of Technical Reports and other Standards 6.1 TR on Interoperability with C 6.2 Fortran Part 3 - Conditional Compilation 7. Identification of Fortran 2000 Requirements 7.1 High Performance Computing Requirements 7.2 Data Extensibility Requirements 7.3 Miscellaneous Requirements (including Internationalization Requirements) 7.4 Final Proposed Content of Fortran 2000 #8. Development of Fortran 2000 Requirements 8.1 High Performance Computing Features 8.2 Data Extensibility Features 8.3 Miscellaneous Features #9. Any other Technical Items 10. Closing Business 10.1 Future WG5 meetings 10.2 Future X3J3 meetings 10.3 Other closing business 11. Adoption of Las Vegas Resolutions 12. Adjournment: 5.30 pm, February 14, 1997 TIMETABLE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The provisional timetable for the meeting is as follows: Monday February 10 8.30 - 11.30 Agenda items 2 and 4 11.30 - 12.00 Tutorial by Arnold Winkler, Convenor of WG20, on the Internationalization aspects of agenda item 7.3 1.30 - 5.00 Work in subgroups on items 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 5.00 - 5.30 Reports from subgroup heads 8.00 - 10.00 6.1 Meeting of the interoperability development body Tuesday February 11 8.30 - 5.00 Processing of subgroup papers from items 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3, followed by work in subgroups on items 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 5.00 - 5.30 Reports from subgroup heads Wednesday February 12 8.30 - 12.30 7.4 Determination of final proposed content of Fortran 2000 2.00 - 5.00 Work in subgroups on items 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 5.00 - 5.30 Reports from subgroup heads 8.00 - 10.00 6.2 Meeting of the conditional compilation development body Thursday February 13 8.30 - 4.00 Processing of subgroup papers from items 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3, followed by work in subgroups on items 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 4.00 - 5.00 Preliminary discussion of proposed resolutions 5.00 - 5.30 Reports from subgroup heads =46riday February 14 8.30 - 12.30 Completion of subgroup work on items 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3, and item 9 2.00 - 5.30 Agenda items 10 and 11 Note that although the days on which the various items will be discussed are intended to be as shown, all times are only approximate and are subject to alteration in the light of circumstances. All delegates will be assigned to one of three technical subgroups: High Performance Computing (HPC), Data Extensibility (DATA), and Miscellaneous (MISC). These subgroups will function throughout the meeting, as indicated above, both for identification of requirements (7.1, 7.2 and 7.3) and development of requirements (8.1, 8.2 and 8.3). The provisional subgroup heads are: HPC - Dick Hendrickson, assisted by Baker Kearfott; DATA - Manuela Z=FCrn, assisted by John Cuthbertson; MISC - Stan Whitlock, assiste= d by Christian Weber. Note also that items 6.1 and 6.2 will be discussed by their respective development bodies in the evenings of Monday and Wednesday, respectively, continuing on Thursday evening if necessary, with full WG5 consideration being limited to discussion of draft resolutions recommended by these development bodies. ---------------------------- end ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Miles Ellis Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford, 37 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