From jwagener@trc.amoco.com Thu Aug 13 16:44:39 1992 Received: from noc.msc.edu by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA17078; Thu, 13 Aug 92 16:44:39 +0200 Received: from uc.msc.edu by noc.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.0.1(920324)) id AA12876; Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:44:41 -0500 Received: from [129.230.11.2] by uc.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.0z(901212)) id AA14727; Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:44:40 -0500 Received: from trc.amoco.com (apctrc.trc.amoco.com) by netserv2 (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA19883; Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:44:30 CDT Received: from crmac1 (crmac1.trc.amoco.com) by trc.amoco.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16694; Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:44:28 CDT Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:44:27 CDT Message-Id: <9208131444.AA16694@trc.amoco.com> From: Jerrold L. Wagener To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: informal report on the Seattle X3J3 meeting X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 informal JLW report of the August 1992 X3J3 meeting in Seattle -------------------------------------------------------------- The principle objectives of this meeting were to (1) process the outstanding issues associated with Fortran 90 maintenance, (2) respond to the POSIX request regarding the proposed Fortran 90 binding, and (3) respond to the WG5 resolutions of the previous week. Objectives (2) and (3) were achieved and good progress was made on objective (1). In addition, the committee welcomed Ken Kennedy for a timely tutorial and discussion on the work and status of the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF). At the beginning of the meeting there were 121 "unresolved issues" associated with the processing of corrections, clarifications, and interpretations to Fortran 90. The vast majority of these were informal email questions or comments and did not represent new requests; 71 of these issues were resolved at the meeting. Because of the high volume of such email traffic, the sentiment seemed to favor putting increased emphasis on asking the email authors to more clearly identify what they expect X3J3 to consider and less emphasis on X3J3 automatically considering every item in that traffic. To this end the procedures outlined in document X3J3/92-027a will be revised and reissued. The results of issue resolution at this meeting will be reflected in the Fortran 90 maintenance document, X3J3/S20, the update of which will be issued shortly. The response to the IEEE POSIX request (X3J3/92-128,141a) confirmed X3J3 support of the proposed Fortran binding and requested coordination between X3J3 and POSIX 1003.9 equivalent to that of "coordinating liaison" (ANSI jargon). This is consistent with the response to the X3H5 binding proposal (X3J3/92-030,110) and with the policy recently adopted by WG5 regarding auxiliary standards (WG5/SD-4, X3J3/92-135, section 3.5 of the strategic plan). Accordingly the response in /92-141a requests that the IEEE establish X3J3 as an official "coordination point" (IEEE jargon) for the proposed binding project. Responses to WG5 resolutions V5, V6, V7, V8, V9, V11, V12, V13, and V14 were developed as document X3J3/S14.122 and passed by unanimous consent. (X3J3 response to the other 10 Victoria resolutions are either not needed or not appropriate.) There were no X3J3 resolutions (in the sense of the /92-135 provisions for R&R documents) at this meeting. Maureen Hoffert, X3J3 vice chair, was appointed the X3J3 (primary devolpment body) representative on the WG5 management committee (V8). The most significant, to X3, of the WG5 resolutions are V6 (adoption of the "Strategic Plan for Fortran Standardization"), V9 (identification of the primary development body for Fortran), and V13 (procedures for processing maintenance material for the international Fortran standard). X3J3 concurs with all three of these resolutions. Regarding V6, the strategic plan specifies that WG5 serve as a requirements body for the next revision and development of the revision, based on these requirements, is delegated to a primary development body. The procedures in V13 identify the X3J3/S20 document as the source of corrigenda items, with X3J3 approval followed by WG5 approval before an item can be forwarded to SC22 as a draft corrigenda; such items will be forwarded about once a year, starting after the November 1992 X3J3 meeting. In some sense V9 is the most significant of the WG5 resolutions, as it documents WG5's decision to produce a near-term (1995-96) revision of Fortran 90. It specifies X3J3 as the primary development body, providing an X3 "I" project for this development can be approved by June 30, 1993. In its response to this resolution X3J3 concurs with the revision plan and agrees to the "I" project terms. X3J3 also unanimously passed a separate motion recording its recommendation that the next revision be done as an "I" project and directing its chair to secure the necessary authorization for such a project. Jerry Wagener