From jkr@jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk Wed Aug 9 14:15:14 2000 Received: from nameserv.rl.ac.uk (nameserv.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.129]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA63344 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:15:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jkr@jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk) Received: from jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk [130.246.8.20]) by nameserv.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA31063 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:15:13 +0100 Received: (from jkr@localhost) by jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id NAA23652 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:16:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:16:20 +0100 (BST) From: John Reid Message-Id: <200008091216.NAA23652@jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: N1398 UK National Activity Report (Muxworthy) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1398 BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (IST/5) UK National Activity Report presented to the meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), Oulu, Finland, August 14-18, 2000 WG5 Convenorship As members will be aware, at the previous WG5 meeting Miles Ellis indicated his intention to resign as convenor at the next SC22 plenary meeting. John Reid was proposed as new convenor by the British member body and this proposal was approved by SC22 in September 1999. Membership and meetings The BSI Fortran Panel has 26 members, including observers. Most of the panel's business is conducted by e-mail and it meets only when there are issues to be resolved which cannot be decided otherwise. There have been no panel meetings since the last WG5 meeting. One member is also an active member of J3. The project editors for the two active Technical Reports and for part 2 of the Fortran standard are members of the BSI panel. Development work has continued during the past year. JTC1 and SC22 votes BSI voted as follows in the Fortran-related ballots since the last WG5 meeting: PDTR Registration and PDTR Ballot for PDTR 15580 yes PDTR Registration and PDTR Ballot for PDTR 15581 yes, subject to correction of title DTR Ballot for DTR 15580 yes DTR Ballot for DTR 15581 yes Ballot on ISO/IEC FDIS 1539-2 yes, subject to correction of Foreword supplied by ITTF British adoption of Fortran 95 BSI has a policy of adopting ISO standards also as British standards. IST/5, the UK counterpart of SC22, has been trying for some time to persuade BSI that programming language standards are international in nature and that there is no technical reason for having a separate British (or European) standard. BSI also has the policy of not adopting an ISO standard until it has been endorsed as an EN (European standard). This bureaucracy has caused a delay in adopting Fortran 95 as a British standard. This has no technical effect, but could have legal implications, for example for contracts. British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group The British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group has 220 members. It has held one meeting during the year, at which two members of the BSI panel gave presentations. David Muxworthy IST/5/-/5 (Fortran) Convenor August 7, 2000