From willemw@komp Tue Aug 13 13:05:08 1996 Received: from ratatosk.DK.net (root@ratatosk.DK.net [193.88.44.22]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA00481 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:05:04 +0200 Received: from komp.ace.nl (komp.ace.nl [193.78.104.90]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA29600 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:23:09 +0200 Received: by komp.ace.nl with SMTP id AA21156 (1.14/2.17); Tue, 13 Aug 96 12:08:18 +0200 (MET) To: sc22wg11@dkuug.dk Subject: WG11 N433 - WG11 Convener Report to SC22 Plenary Meeting From: Willem Wakker Reply-To: Willem Wakker Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 12:08:16 N Message-Id: <21153.839930896@komp> Sender: willemw@komp.ace.nl WG11 Convener report to SC22, July 1996 SC22/WG11 N433 1. Meetings The following meetings of SC22/WG11 were held since the last report: September 25-27, 1995 Gaithersburg (MD), U.S.A. April 15-19, 1996 Copenhagen, Denmark There is currently no next meeting planned. 2. WG11 Participation Participation in WG11 continues to be a point of concern. Although the situation is better than before (active participation from Japan and Sweden at the last meetings), the fact it is still basically a `one person per country representation' could make attendance at meetings unpredictable. Also, the fact that some representatives are only interested in one WG11 project and not in the other projects makes the picture look better than it actually is. Therefore SC22 Member Bodies are urgently requested to continue to pay attention to the support for the WG11 activities. 3. Work Item JTC1.22.16 - Common Procedure Calling Mechanism This project is finalized: the document is published by ITTF as ISO/IEC 13886:1996. 4. Work Item JTC1.22.17 - Language Independent Datatypes This project is finalized: the document is to be published by ITTF as ISO/IEC 11404:1996. 5. Work Item JTC1.22.28 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1 This project is finalized: the document is published as ISO/IEC 10967- 1:1994. 6. Work Item JTC1.22.33 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 2 The first CD was distributed to SC22 as SC22 N2021 for combined registration and CD ballot. Both ballots passed. However, seeing the amount of comments received on the document, WG11 has decided to produce a second CD 10967-2. This document is expected to be available for CD ballot by the end of August 1996. 7. Work Item JTC1.22.34 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 3 The work on this part of IS 10967 (on complex arithmetic and procedures) will follow (in time) the work on part 2, 8. Language Independent Service Specifications As with many WG11 projects, participation in this project remains a problem. Furthermore, there is no official project-editor for the project, although reasonable progress has been made thanks to the efforts of Mr. Brian Meek. Pending the resolution of this problem the convener will act as project editor. A more or less complete draft of this document is expected by 4Q96. 9. Liaisons Liaisons exist with the following SC22 WGs: WG2 - Pascal, WG3 - APL, WG4 - COBOL, WG9 - Ada, WG14 - C, WG15 - POSIX, WG20 - Internationalization and WG22 - PCTE. Also, liaison representatives from SC24 (Graphics) and SC26 (Micro Processors) to WG11 have been appointed. Informal liaisons also exists with SC22/WG13 - Modula-2, SC22/WG17 - Prolog and SC2 - Characters. 10. Contact points Drs. Willem Wakker ACE Consulting bv Van Eeghenstraat 100 1071 GL AMSTERDAM Nederland Phone: +31 20 6646416 Fax: +31 20 6750389 Email: willemw@ace.nl Remark: Convener SC22/WG11 Mr. Edward Barkmeyer National Institute of Standards and Technology Building 225, Mail Stop B-266 Gaithersburg MD 20899 U.S.A. Phone: +1 301 975 3528 Fax: +1 301 258 9749 Email: edbark@cme.nbs.gov Remark: Project Editor Language Independent Datatypes Mr. Craig Schaffert DEC, Cambridge Research Lab One Kendall Square, Bldg 700 Cambridge MA 02139 U.S.A. Phone: +1 617 621 6617 Fax: +1 617 621 6650 Email: schaffert@crl.dec.com Remark: Project Editor Language Independent Arithmetic Ms. Mary Payne Digital Equipment Corporation 129 Parker Street Maynard MA 01754 U.S.A. Phone: +1 508 493 2586 Fax: +1 508 493 3608 Email: payne@csovax.enet.dec.com Remark: Project Editor Language Independent Arithmetic Mr. Paul Rabin Open Software Foundation 11 Cambridge Center Cambridge MA 02142 U.S.A. Phone: +1 617 621 8873 Fax: +1 617 621 0584 Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG15 - POSIX Mr. Tom Turba Unisys Corporation P.O. Box 64942 St. Paul MN 55164-0942 U.S.A. Phone: +1 612 635 6774 Fax: +1 612 635 3899 Email: turba@rsvl.unisys.com Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG2 - Pascal Dr. Eke Batenburg RUL, Instituut voor Theoretische Biologie Kaiserstraat 63 2311 GP LEIDEN Nederland Phone: +31 71 274900 Fax: +31 71 274972 Email: SBQBEB@rulsfb.LeidenUniv.nl Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG3 - APL Mr. Donald Nelson Tandem Computers Inc. 5425 Stevens Creek Blvd. Santa Clara CA 95051-7200 U.S.A. Phone: +1 408 285 5203 Fax: +1 408 285 5245 Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG4 - COBOL Mr. Bill Carlson Intermetrics Inc. 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge MA 02138 U.S.A. Phone: +1 617 661 1840 Fax: +1 617 868 2843 Email: carlson@inmet.inmet.com Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG9 - ADA Mr. Keld Simonsen DKnet/DS Sankt Joergens Alle 8 DK-1615 COPENHAGEN V Denmark Phone: +45 3917 9944 Fax: +45 3120 8948 Email: keld@dkuug.dk Remark: Liaison with SC22/WG14 - C and SC22/WG20 Internationalization Mr. Christof Blum Fraunhofer-Computer Graphics Research Group Wilhelminenstr. 7 W-6100 DARMSTADT Germany Phone: +49 6151 155 145 Fax: +49 6151 155 194 Remark: Liaison with SC24 - Computer Graphics Dr. Richard Karpinski University of California San Francisco U-76 San Francisco CA 94143-0704 U.S.A. Phone: +1 415 476 4529 Remark: Liaison with SC26 - Micro Processors