From willemw@komp Mon Sep 21 13:39:28 1998 Received: from komp.ace.nl (komp.ace.nl [193.78.104.90]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA13000 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:39:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from willemw@komp) Received: by komp.ace.nl with SMTP id AA26653 (1.14/2.17); Mon, 21 Sep 98 13:50:01 +0200 (MET) To: sc22wg11@dkuug.dk Subject: WG11 N452 - Request to ISO/IEC JTC 1 to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 Publicly Available Date: Mon, 21 Sep 98 13:50:01 N Message-Id: <26651.906378601@komp> From: Willem Wakker During the past week I was contacted by people from SC32 and the W3C consortium about the public availablility of ISO/IEC 11404 - Language Independent Datatypes. I think that I was speaking on behalf of WG11 when I supported the usage of 11404 for this type of work. As approval of publicly availablilty of standards has to be given by ISO CS on request by JTC1, and since JTC1 is meeting (relatively) shortly and a (formal) request to JTC1 first has to be approved by SC22, I have prepared the appended request for SC22. Regards, Willem. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Willem Wakker email: cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc ACE Consulting bv tel: +31 20 6646416 Van Eeghenstraat 100 fax: +31 20 6750389 1071 GL Amsterdam, The Netherlands www: http://www.ace.nl eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee _________________________- beginning of title page ___________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2819 TITLE: Request to ISO/IEC JTC 1 to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 Publicly Available - ACCELLERATED LETTER BALLOT DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-09-18 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: SC22 Letter Ballot PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: SC22/WG11 has requested that action on this request take place at the January 1999 ISO/IEC JTC 1 Meeting. It is necessary that an accellerated SC22 letter ballot be issued to obtain SC22 approval in advance of that meeting and in time to meet the previously established cut-off date for distribution of JTC 1 documents for that meeting. ACTION IDENTIFIER: ACT DUE DATE: 1998-12-15 DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net ___________________ end of title page; beginning of letter ballot ______ Attachment to JTC 1/SC22 N2819 Circulation Date: 1998-09-18 LETTER BALLOT FROM THE MEMBER BODY OF _______________________________________ On WG11 Request to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 Publicly Available Using the Justificiation Contained in Document SC22 N2819 This Letter Ballot is to be returned by each "P" Member Body to the Secretariat of JTC 1/SC22 by DECEMBER 15, 1998. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ We approve this Request for forwarding to ISO/IEC JTC 1 or _____ We approve this Request for forwarding to ISO/IEC JTC 1 with the attached comments or _____ We do not agree that this Request be forwarded to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for the technical reasons attached to this ballot or _____ We abstain from voting ("P" Members have an obligation to vote.) * PLACE AN "x" ON APPLICABLE LINE. Name ____________________________________ Signature (if mailed) ____________________ Date: ___________ _____________ end of letter ballot; beginning of justification _______ Justification to Make ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent Datatypes Publicly Available. SC32 (Data Management and Interchange) has approved a Study Period which will become a New Work Item Request for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2 on "XML Representation for Data Registry Metadata Exchange." Work is under way on this project for the Study Period and SC32 has designated a liaison with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), whose XML-Schema Working Group is working on datatypes for XML. SC32 will need to collaborate closely on this project with members of W3C -- particularly participants in its newly reconstituted XML activity and XML-Schema Working Group. It is the intention of SC32 that ISO/IEC 11404 is used as a starting point for XML's own datatype recommendations, but this can only be done if participants in the W3C activity can easily access ISO/IEC 11404 via the web. Sharing the ISO/IEC 11404 standard with W3C participants is a necessary part of this SC32/WG2 standards development activity because our project will require XML Datatypes as an important component for Data Registry Metadata Exchange. _________________________ end of SC22 N2819 ____________________________