JTC1/SC22
N3768
From:ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI)
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3768
TITLE:
SC 22/WG 11 Business Plan/Convener's Report
DATE ASSIGNED:
2004-07-26
SOURCE:
SC 22/WG 11 Convenor (W. Wakker)
BACKWARD POINTER:
N/A
DOCUMENT TYPE:
Other document (Open)
PROJECT NUMBER:
STATUS:
This document will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under Agenda
Item 8.5.
ACTION IDENTIFIER:
FYI
DUE DATE:
N/A
DISTRIBUTION:
Text
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WG11 Business Plan/Convener Report SC22/WG11 N491
BUSINESS PLAN FOR JTC 1/SC22 WG11
PERIOD COVERED: August 2003 - July 2004
SUBMITTED BY:
W. F. Wakker (Convener JTC 1/SC22 WG11)
ACE Consulting bv
De Ruyterkade 113
1011 AB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Email: willemw@ace.nl
1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY:
1.1 JTC 1/SC22 WG11 Statement of Scope
Development of ISO/IEC Standards and Technical Reports related to Binding
Techniques and (Programming) Language Independent Issues.
1.2 Project Report
1.2.1 Completed Projects
JTC1.22.14 -- TR 10182:1994 - Language Bindings Guidelines
JTC1.22.17 -- ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent Datatypes
JTC1.22.16 -- ISO/IEC 13886:1996 - Language Independent Procedure Calling
JTC1.22.28 -- ISO/IEC 10967-1:1994 - Language Independent Arithmetic,
Part 1: Integer and Floating Point Arithmetic
JTC1.22.33 -- ISO/IEC 10967-2:2001 - Language Independent Arithmetic,
Part 2: Elementary Numerical Functions
JTC1.22.46 -- TR 14369:1999 - Guidelines for the Preparation of Language
Independent Service Specifications
1.2.2 Projects Underway
JTC1.22.33 -- CD 10967-3 - Language Independent Arithmetic,
Part 3: Complex Floating Point Arithmetic and Complex
Elementary Numerical Functions
The FCD 10967-3 ballot is currently underway (see document SC22 N3754) and
closes on 2004-10-30.
The revision of IEC 60559 (also known as IEEE 754, the floating-point
standard) is closely followed to see whether this revision has consequences
for the LIA documents.
JTC1.22.17 -- ISO/IEC 11404:200x - General Purpose Datatypes
ISO/IEC 11404 is under revision; the first CD of the revision (see document
SC22 N3612) was registered and approved (see SC22 N3698).
A road-map for this revision was distributed to SC22 as document N3620.
The final CD is expected to be available by September 2004.
It is remarkable that many organizations outside SC22 (like SC32 - Data
management and Interchange, and the W3C consortium) are interested in this
specification.
1.3 Cooperation and Competition
The WG11 documents are mainly produced to be used by other programming
language committees.
Therefore, WG11 maintains liaisons with many of the SC22 WGs.
In order to improve the usability of the WG11 documents, especially outside
JTC1, it is beneficial to make these documents freely available.
The WG11 Technical Reports 10182 and 14369, as well as ISO/IEC 11404:1996
and ISO/IEC 13886:1996 are freely available (via ITTF and via the WG11
website).
Once ISO/IEC 10967-3 is finalized, WG11 will request for free availability
of all parts of ISO/IEC 10967.
2. PERIOD REVIEW
2.1 Market Requirements
There are no clearly defined market requirements for the WG11 projects;
however several ISO/IEC standards make reference to the documents.
There is thus apparently an indirect market requirement.
2.2 Achievements
Despite the sometimes small participation in WG11, a number of high quality
ISO standards have been produced.
2.3 Resources
WG11 resources have been a problem for the past years, and continue to be
so.
Attendance is very low, and project editors are difficult to find.
3. FOCUS NEXT WORK PERIOD
3.1 Deliverables
The FCD for LID and FDIS for LIA-3 should be prepared.
3.2 Strategies
3.2.1 Risks
Participation is a clear risk for the progression of the WG11 work.
The SC22 Member Bodies are invited to provide resources so that
WG11 at least can finalize its current work items.
3.2.2 Opportunities
No further opportunities have been identified.
3.2.3 Work Program Priorities
The progression of LIA-3 and the revision of LID have the highest priority.
4. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
4.1 WG11 Liaisons
Liaisons exist with the following SC22 WGs: WG3 - APL,
WG4 - COBOL, WG9 - Ada, WG14 - C and WG20 - Internationalization.
Informal liaisons also exist with SC22/WG13 - Modula-2, SC22/WG19 - Formal
Language Techniques, and SC2 - Characters.
Mr. Frank Farance is acting liaison between SC32/WG2 and WG11 on issues
related to the revision of ISO/IEC 11404.
5. SC22 PLENARY ACTIONS RELATED TO WG11
No actions requested.
Sally Seitz
Program Administrator
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 642-4918
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