From jwagener@amoco.com Tue Feb 1 10:41:54 1994 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA24761 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:00:50 +0100 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 02:59:51 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-3); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 02:59:51 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 02:59:51 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 02:59:51 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-0); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 02:59:51 -0600 From: jwagener@amoco.com X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 16:41:54 -0600 Message-Id: Subject: Fortran 77 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Item Subject: Message text A couple of weeks ago I received a short letter from X3 indicating that the Fortran 77 standard in the US needed to be reaffirmed or withdrawn by the end of 1994. (I meant to send it out to you right away, but didn't make it before needing to rush to catch a plane, and then it got buried....) I'll bring copies for the table at the X3J3 meeting next week, but here is the heart of it: "Would you please initiate action within X3J3 to develop a recommendation for X3 that this standard either be withdrawn or reaffirmed. Each recommendation must be the result of a 30-day X3J3 letter ballot with 2/3rds of those voting favoring the recommendation. ... "If a recommendation is not forthcoming from X3J3 before the September 1994 Operational Management Committee (OMC) meeting, OMC will be forced to make a recommendation on this issue without benefit of the Technical Committee's input." This means, unless we abdicate our responsibility on this matter, that we have to have a letter ballot on it either after next week's meeting or after the May meeting. I see no reason why we shouldn't have one after next week, as that would give us an opportunity to have another one after May if we need it. So I suppose we need to take a straw vote next week to see which way to word the letter ballot: REAFFIRM or WITHDRAW. Those of you who won't be at the meeting might like to weigh in with an email opinion of which way the wording should go. Regards. Jerry jwagener@amoco.com