From owner-sc22wg11@open-std.org Fri Jul 20 10:48:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg11-domo1 Delivered-To: sc22wg11-domo1@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 01AB0D7A7A; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:48:43 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg11@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg11@open-std.org Received: from ace.ace.nl (smtp1.ace.nl [193.78.105.127]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0A719EEE for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:48:14 +0200 (CET DST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.ace.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ace.ace.nl (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6K8m9Ii008545; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:48:10 +0200 Message-ID: <46A076CE.2070302@ace.nl> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:48:14 +0200 From: Willem Wakker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SC22WG11 Subject: Revision of LIA standards Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg11@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Dear WG11 member/participant/follower, With the publication in 2006 of part 3 of ISO/IEC 10967 - Language Independent Arithmetic - the project, originally defined by WG11 back in 1990, was finalized. However, with a part 1, published in 1996, as base document for the following parts it was recognized that at some point in time (preferably after the publication of the last part) a thorough review of all parts should be done with the aim of fully aligning all parts. That moment now has come. Description of the work: - the review should be aimed at aligning the concepts and terminology; no introduction of new features; - the review of the FDIS ballot comments (mainly form Japan) on LIA-3 should finalized. Most of the work is on part 1 where the 'newer' approach towards IEC 60559, used in parts 2 and 3, should be applied; the work on the other parts should be simpler and more straight forward. Therefore the following scheme is proposed: 1- a (reasonable complete) working draft of the revised part 1 is made available to WG11 for review and comment; this document is now available as WG11 N507 (www.open-std.org/SC22/WG11/docs/N507.pdf); comments preferably before September 5th, 2007. 2- by the end of September 2007: start of the registration ballot of the revised 10967-1. 3- permission will be asked from the SC22 Plenary in September to have combined registration and FCD ballots for parts 2 and 3. 4- assuming that all goes well with points 2 and 3, simultaneous FCD level ballots for all parts can take place (early spring 2008?). I will mention the above in my Convenor's report to SC22 which is due by early August, so if you have comments please let me know a.s.a.p. Best regards, - Willem Wakker. PS: the final FDIS 11404 text is 'somewhere' in Geneva, waiting for the ballot to start. When that is going to happen I don't know ... -- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Willem Wakker email: cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc ACE Consulting bv tel: +31 20 6646416 De Ruijterkade 113 fax: +31 20 6750389 1011 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands www: http://www.ace.nl eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee