SC22 N2479 - WG9 Business Plan and WG9 Conveners Report for SC22 August 1997 Plenary
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI)
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
N2479
May 1997
TITLE:
WG9 Business Plan and WG9 Convener's Report for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22
Plenary
SOURCE:
Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
WORK ITEM:
N/A
STATUS:
Please note that this Report contains a number of issues for consideration
at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary
CROSS REFERENCE:
N/A
DOCUMENT TYPE:
Convener's Report
ACTION:
To SC22 Member Bodies for action.
Address reply to:
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat
William C. Rinehuls
8457 Rushing Creek Court
Springfield, VA 22153 USA
Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680
Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973
email: rinehuls@access.digex.net
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Convener's Report, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 (Ada)
This report is in the form of the requested "Business Plan." Other items
are included in an additional Section 4.
BUSINESS PLAN FOR ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 (Ada)
PERIOD COVERED:
June 1996 - May 1997
SUBMITTED BY:
Convener of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9
James W. Moore
The MITRE Corporation, W534
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd.
McLean, Virginia 22102
USA
703.883.7396 (Office)
703.883.5432 (Fax)
moorej@acm.org
1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
1.1 JTC1/SC22/WG9 STATEMENT OF SCOPE
Development of ISO standards for Programming Language Ada
1.2 PROJECT REPORT
1.2.1 COMPLETED PROJECTS
22.10.01 -- IS 8652:1995 Programming Languages: Ada
Planning for the revision of 8652 is commencing.
22.10.02 -- IS 11430:1994 Generic Package of Elementary Functions for
Ada
22.10.03 -- IS 11729:1994 Generic Package of Primitive Functions for Ada
The contents of 11430 and 11729 are substantively subsumed by the
subsequent approval of the 1995 revision of 8652. These standards will
probably be withdrawn circa 1999.
22.31 -- IS 12227:1995 SQL/Ada Module Description Language (SAMeDL)
WG9 has determined that the revision of 12227 is currently unnecessary;
this decision will be reconsidered periodically.
22.35 -- (Type 2) TR 11735:1996 EXTensions for real-time Ada
The contents of 11735 are substantively subsumed by the 1995 revision of
8652. This Technical Report will be withdrawn when usage of the 1987
version of the Ada language has diminished.
1.2.2 PROJECTS UNDERWAY
22.10.04 -- DIS 13813 Generic packages of real and complex type
declarations and basic operations for Ada (including vector and matrix
types)
WG9 has submitted this document for DIS ballot. Completion in 1998 is
planned.
22.10.05 -- DIS 13814 Generic package of complex elementary functions
for Ada
WG9 has submitted this document for DIS ballot. Completion in 1998 is
planned.
22.15291-- WD 15291 Ada Semantic Interface Specification (ASIS)
At the August plenary meeting of SC22, permission will be requested for
simultaneous CD registration and ballot of this document. Completion in
early 1999 is planned.
1.2.3 NEW PROJECTS
At its June meeting, WG9 will consider proposing a New Work Item for Ada
in High-Integrity Systems. The product would be a Technical Report
describing how Ada might be applied to the most demanding of
safety-critical and security-critical systems. Liaison with interested
national and international organizations (such as IEC TC56) is
envisioned, and, in fact, is already occurring on an informal basis.
1.2.4 COOPERATION AND COMPETITION
There are two major professional societies in this area: the Special
Interest Group on Ada (SIG) of the Association for Computing Machinery
and Ada-Europe. The semi-annual meetings of WG9 are scheduled to
coincide with the major conferences organized by these two groups.
Informal but close cooperation with SIGAda is maintained by the
convener. The UK Head of Delegation to WG9 is also an officer of
Ada-Europe.
There is one major vendor consortium, the Ada Resource Association
(ARA). Formal liaison with ARA is maintained. WG9 is looking for
opportunities to transpose de facto standards from the ARA.
The United States Department of Defense (DOD), Ada Joint Program Office
(AJPO) has a continuing interest in the Ada language. Liaison is assured
because AJPO funds the convener to serve in his position.
In addition, liaison and/or consultation are applied as appropriate with
WG4 (Cobol), WG11 (Language-Independent Standards), WG14 (C Language),
WG15 (POSIX), WG16 (LISP), WG21 (C++), SC21/WG3 (IRDS), the SC22 Java
Study Group, and the IEEE Computer Society Software Engineering
Standards Committee.
2.0 PERIOD REVIEW
2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS
The most fundamental change in the market has been action by the US DOD
to drop its "mandate" of Ada in all military systems. The choice of
language to be used will now be made by each individual development
program. Certain segments of the DOD apparently remain committed to
favoring Ada, notably the real-time, embedded systems community. DOD has
committed to increase funding to support the activities of the AJPO.
2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS
Published: (Type 2) TR 11735:1996 EXTensions for real-time Ada
DIS text submitted: DIS 13813 Generic packages of real and complex type
declarations and basic operations for Ada (including vector and matrix
types)
DIS text submitted: DIS 13814 Generic package of complex elementary
functions for Ada
A Web page was established for the business of WG9,
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