JTC1/SC22
N3810
From:ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI)
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3810
TITLE:
Conveners Meeting Report of the Future Directions for SC 22 Ad Hoc Session,
6 September 2004
DATE ASSIGNED:
2004-09-15
SOURCE:
Ad Hoc Convener (J. Hodgson)
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Meeting Report
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This document was prepared by the Ad Hoc Convener.
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FYI
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Sally Seitz
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Telephone: (212) 642-4918
Fax: (212) 840-2298
Email: sseitz@ansi.org <mailto:sseitz@ansi.org>
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Ad Hoc on Future Directions for SC22.
This document summarizes the discussions during the ad hoc. A more
detailed report on the discussion is included in the recording
secretary's notes N 3811.
Sally Seitz agreed to act as recording secretary.
The group identified a number of areas where SC22 might be able to
take initiatives. The need to produce standards that will be useful to
SC22's ``customer base'' is a paramount consideration. It will be
helpful to carry out some exploratory work to determine what kind of
standards would be useful to this base. Mr. Diamond suggested that
industrial consortia such as POSC in the Oil industry could be
consulted with a view to determining what kind of language standards
would be of interest to them.
Mr. Moore had submitted a document (N3?) proposing work in the area of
support for High Integrity applications. The group discussed this at
some length and adopted it as an area for further study.
Inter-language communication was another area that was considered. The
group decided that libraries, for example windowing libraries, are
potentially an area where an SC22 standard could be viable. This too
was adopted for further study.
The need for Standards education is the final area where the ad hoc
endorsed further study. This issue of educating the public about
SC22's work as a way of encouraging greater participation in SC22's
work has come up before. Finding alternate venues, such as professional
conferences, to the SC22 plenary for a workshop on SC22's activities
might be one way to proceed.
Action Items.
Mr. Hodgson will coordinate a meeting of the Ad Hoc group to be held
in Philadelphia. PA in March 2005. This meeting will consider the
written work if the subgroups charged to explore Opportunities and Risks for
SC22 in each of the following areas:
Support for High Integrity Applications. Mr. J. Moore
Libraries Mr. J. Hodgson with
the assistance of
Mr. J.
Benito.
Industrial Consortia Mr. J. Hill and
Mr. J. Diamond
Standards Education Mr. Kurokawa
Agenda time will be given only to those items for which documents are
submitted.
Sally Seitz
Program Administrator
ANSI
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 642-4918
Fax: (212) 840-2298