From rinehuls@access.digex.net Mon Aug 4 19:05:11 1997 Received: from access1.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access1.digex.net [205.197.245.192]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA16605 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:05:09 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access1.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA02479 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:05:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:05:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2540 - WG11 Business Plan for August Plenary Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ________________ 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 N2540 August 1997 SUBJECT: WG11 Business Plan for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: Please note that this Business Plan will be considered under Agenda Item 8.5 at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Business Plan ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for review. 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 ________________ end of title page; beginning of report __________________ BUSINESS PLAN FOR JTC 1/SC22 WG11 PERIOD COVERED: September 1996 - July 1997 SUBMITTED BY: W. F. Wakker (Convener JTC 1/SC22 WG11) ACE Consulting bv Van Eeghenstraat 100 1071 GL, Amsterdam, Netherlands Email: willemw@ace.nl 1. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY: 1.1 JTC 1/SC22 WG11 STATEMENT OF SCOPE Development of ISO/IEC Standards and Technical Reports related to Binding Techniques and (Programming) Language Independent Issues. 1.2 PROJECT REPORT 1.2.1 COMPLETED PROJECTS JTC1.22.14 -- TR 10182:1994: Language Bindings Guidelines JTC1.22.16 -- ISO/IEC 13886:1996 - Language Independent Procedure Calling JTC1.22.17 -- ISO/IEC 11404:1996 - Language Independent Datatypes JTC1.22.28 -- ISO/IEC 10967-1:1994 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1: Integer and Floating Point Arithmetic 1.2.2 PROJECTS UNDERWAY JTC1.22.33 -- (F)CD 10967-2 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 2: Elementary Numerical Functions The FCD was ballotted (closing date: June 1997; a meeting has to be called to discuss the ballot comments. No project editor is available. JTC1.22.33 -- WD 10967-3 - Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 3: Complex Floating Point Arithmetic and Complex Elementary Numerical Functions The work on this part of IS 10967 will follow (in time) the work on part 2, No project editor is available. JTC1.22.46 -- WDTR 14369 - Guidelines for the Preparation of Language Independent Service Specifications Although a lot of work has been done on this document (see Review and Comment version SC22 N2470) its future remains unclear. No project editor is available. 1.3 COOPERATION AND COMPETITION The WG11 documents are mainly produced to be used by other programming language committees. Therefore, WG11 maintains liaisons with many of the SC22 WGs. 2. PERIOD REVIEW 2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS There are no clearly defined market requirements for the WG11 projects; however several ISO/IEC standards make reference to the documents. There is thus apparently an indirect market requirement. 2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS Despite the sometimes small participation in WG11, a number of high quality ISO standards have been produced. 2.3 RESOURCES WG11 resources have been a problem for the past years, and are even more a problem now. Attendance is very low, and no project editors are available. 3. FOCUS NEXT WORK PERIOD 3.1 DELIVERABLES Two projects (LIA-2 and LISS) should progress to their next stages; the progression will be discussed at a WG11 meeting in the last quarter of 1997. 3.2 STRATEGIES 3.2.1 RISKS Participation and lack of editors is a clear risk for the progression of the WG11 work. The SC22 Member Bodies are invited to provide resources so that WG11 at least can finalize its current work items. 3.2.2 OPPORTUNITIES No further opportunities have been identified. 3.2.3 WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES The finalization of LIA-2 has the highest priority. _________________-- end of SC22 N2540 _______________________________