From maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov Wed Feb 28 18:26:05 2001 Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA24578 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:26:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:25:45 -0800 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.129.8]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 35-62055U1500L100S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:25:26 -0800 Received: (from maine@localhost) by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1SHPNr27230; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:25:23 -0800 From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <15005.13443.558944.339090@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:25:23 -0800 (PST) To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: (Fortran) SC 22 N 3215 In-Reply-To: <3A9D2D45.FD36C6C6@cic-mail.lanl.gov> References: <3A9D2D45.FD36C6C6@cic-mail.lanl.gov> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid > From: Susan Bose ... > > TITLE: > Text for publication, Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC TR 10176, Guidelines for the > Preparation of Programming Language Standards ... > This text, along with the disposition of comments report contained in SC 22 > N 3216, has been sent to ITTF for publication. This document is located at: > http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/def/n3215.pdf Sounds like something I/we ought to be at least aware of. Alas, the web site wants a user name and password that I don't know. I've probably been told, but didn't record it. I have more than enough user names and passwords of my own to remember/record, and I generally figure that if a standards-related document isn't publically available, then I probably don't need it. If there is something proprietary about how to prepare standards, then I don't even want to know, because I wouldn't want to be responsible for keeping it private. If I'm expected to pay for a copy of this because it's an official ISO publication, then those expectations are not going to be met. I did recently buy a copy of the C standard out of my own pocket (at $18 US that was quite acceptable - wish our own standard was available under similar terms), but I can't see paying even such nominal amounts for internal ISO documents; the principle of that would annoy me more than the money. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov | experience comes from bad judgement. | -- Mark Twain