From jwagener@amoco.com Tue May 4 05:51:28 1993 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA18851 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 4 May 1993 17:51:36 +0200 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id AA05691 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk); Tue, 4 May 1993 10:45:15 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Tue, 4 May 1993 10:45:15 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Tue, 4 May 1993 10:45:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 May 93 10:51:28 CDT Message-Id: <9305041551.AA28154@trc.amoco.com> From: Jerrold L. Wagener To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: sneak preview X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 To X3J3 - It's less than a week now until X3J3#125 in Champaign. You all have the agenda, but I would like to summarize what I believe are important tasks at this meeting. First of course are the interpretations. The flood of new requests seems to have abated somewhat, but it is important to attempt to complete those on the books and address those (few at the moment) new ones. Three of the interpretation subgroups have pending items; only CIO is finished. The three unfinished items assigned to /edit will be assumed by GEN, which will spread the remaining interpretation work out reasonably evenly among GEN, DATA, and PROC. (I sent around a list of those outstanding items earlier.) DickH will be at the meeting to head GEN, JeanneM will head DATA again at this meeting (as she did at the last meeting), and KurtH will be present (of course, as host) to head PROC. AndrewT will not be at the meeting, so I guess I'll try to pinch hit for him with regards to assignment of new topics and any 006 issues. CIO will team with /parallel to work with the X3H5 representatives to complete the Fortran 90 binding to the X3H5 parallel model. JonS will not be at the at the meeting; RichB will head this team in working with X3H5. I expect that we will have to make some significant decisions during the week regarding this binding, so be sure and be familiar with the draft that I distributed earlier, and bring your copy to the meeting. (The model document was in the premeeting, the binding I distributed separately via email in postscript form.) The /edit and /JOR subgroups will be working full speed ahead; /edit on editorial aspects of the next standard document and /JOR on requirements for the next standard. This meeting is the last X3J3 meeting before the 1993 WG5 meeting at which (I expect) requirements to be the main topic. On this point, there may be some potential requirements from the recent POSIX announcement. That came over the email as document x3j3.1993-114 and should become an X3J3 document - DavidM, would you please give this an X3J3/93-nnn number and we can put copies on the table. I called Michael Hannah after seeing that message and during the course of that conversation it seemed like a sort of "showstopper" in that effort was Fortran 90's lack of a C typedef functionality; perhaps that is also a possible requirement (LenM, take note). I hope that DickW will give a full report on the POSIX situation (he was traveling and I have not been able to make contact with him). So things are getting exciting - we will be busy in Champaign. Tomorrow I am meeting with the OMC (formerly SPARC) to give the X3J3 annual report (which was in the premeeting distribution). Attached to the annual report, among other things, were X3J3/93-013, our interpretation procedures, and X3J3/93-006r (yes, the WHOLE thing). I have suggested to the OMC that the main topic of my meeting with them should be what to do with the 006 since it is (in X3J3's opinion) the optimal handling of interpretation requests but is not completely in accord with either of the (slightly incompatible) ISO and ANSI procedures for handling interpretations. Another issue that I want to clarify with the OMC is the situation regarding the $300 international fee. If there are other matters you think I need to discuss with the OMC you should let me know today. I'll give a report of the OMC meeting next week at the X3J3 meeting. Speaking of the OMC, they have 30 day letter ballot now scheduled, ending on June 8, regarding our single candidate for the X3J3 vice chair position. After June 8 I expect Rich Kelble will officially be our new vice chair. Congratulations Rich. 'Course now we will need a new secretary........ See y'all next week in Champaign. JerryW