From miles.ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 22 11:01:38 1999 Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk (oxmail3.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.9]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA63322 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:01:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from miles.ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk) Received: from ermine.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.13]) by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10wMQi-0003Cd-00 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:01:20 +0100 Received: from com1.etrc.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.85.1]) by ermine.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10wMQi-0003Pp-00 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:01:20 +0100 X-Sender: mellis@ermine.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:02:09 +0100 To: "WG5 members (list)" From: Miles Ellis Subject: Resignation of Convenor Those of you who have read the Cadarache Resolutions posted by David Muxworthy, may have been surprised by resolution C16. When I was appointed as Convenor of WG5 in early 1995, following Jeanne Martin's resignation, it had been my intention to remain as your Convenor for (at least) two three-year-terms. As a result of a (rare ;-) error by the SC22 Secretariat, my re-appointment was not on the agenda for last year's SC22 Plenary, and so my initial term of office was extended to nearly five years instead of nearly four. It had been my hope that I would be able to remain as your Convenor until the completion of the revision of the base Fortran standard to create Fortran 200x, but it is now clear that this will not be completed within my next potential term of office, which would have ended in September 2002. I have been finding it increasingly difficult to justify the time required to properly carry out my duties as Convenor since, as you will all probably know, my present job as Director of Oxford's audio-visual, television and media services does not really have anything to do with Fortran at all! After careful consideration, therefore, I have decided not to apply for re-appointment by SC22 when my present term of office expires at this year's Plenary in September. The UK will be coming forward with a proposal for a replacement, as it currently holds the Secretariat for WG5, and I hope that, if various details can be sorted out in time, it will be possible for him to be appointed by SC22 at its September Plenary meeting. If, for any reason, this is not possible then I shall stay on as caretaker Convenor until things are sorted out. I informed those members of WG5 who were at last week's meeting in Cadarache of my resignation, but I am now taking this opportunity to tell everyone that this is the end of my involvement in Fortran standardization activities. I joined WG5 at its second meeting in 1986 and have attended 17 of the eighteen meetings held since then. During the same period I will have attended six SC22 Plenaries, one SC2 Plenary, five meetings of WG20 and three SC22 Ad Hoc meetings on character issues. I also attended about 25 X3J3 meetings during the same period, making a total of just over a full year of standards meetings (c. 54 weeks)!! I have enjoyed working with you all, and hope that our paths will cross in the future. I certainly intend to be present for at least part of the 2001 meeting of WG5 in the UK. I shall, of course, be attending the Plenary in Berlin in September to represent WG5's views, and to press for approval of various issues that were raised in Cadarache. As soon as my successor has been appointed, however, we shall begin to alter the process for distributing documents, etc. Until further notified, though, any documents for posting to the WG5 electronic document store should continue to be sent to me. Miles Ellis Convenor: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran) Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk miles@oph.u-net.com (home) WWW: http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/Personal/Miles/Miles_Ellis.html Phone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527