From owner-sc22docs@dkuug.dk Tue Aug 19 21:25:49 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h7JJPnaV016425 for sc22docs-domo; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:25:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22docs@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22docs@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from rap.rap.dk (213.237.47.228.adsl.vbr.worldonline.dk [213.237.47.228]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h7JJPjEc016414 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:25:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from keld@rap.rap.dk) Received: by rap.rap.dk (Postfix, from userid 500) id EDC463EC55; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from email1.ansi.org ([12.15.192.5]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h7JIZVEc013195 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:35:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from SSeitz@ansi.org) Received: by EMAIL1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:27:15 -0400 Message-ID: From: Sally Seitz To: "'sc22info@dkuug.dk'" Cc: Matthew Deane Subject: (SC22docs.1964) SC 22 N 3625-UK National Body Report, September 2 002-August 2003 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:27:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-sc22docs@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N 3625 TITLE: UK National Body Report, September 2002-August 2003 DATE ASSIGNED: 2003-08-19 SOURCE: UK National Body BACKWARD POINTER: DOCUMENT TYPE: Other (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary under agenda item 7.1. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: OPEN Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org ___end of cover page, beginning of document____ UK National Body activity report September 2002 - August 2003 The UK participant committee for SC22 is BSI IST/5, Programming Languages. Technical work Almost all of the technical work of IST/5 is in relation to SC22 projects, and it maintains technical panels which co-ordinate the UK contribution to the SC22 WGs in which the UK is active. These panels advise IST/5 on matters such as letter ballots. In addition the UK provides the secretariat and convenor for WG5 (Fortran) and also WG19 (Formal Specification Languages). The UK also provides the Project Editors for the two Fortran Technical reports, one of the C++ Technical reports and part of the Fortran Standard, Pascal, PCTE, Prolog, VDM, Z and Extended BNF as well as the Lead Rapporteur for WG15's Rapporteur Group on Revising POSIX. The UK is active in, and maintains panels for - WG4 (COBOL), WG5 (Fortran), WG9 (Ada), WG11 (Bindings), WG14 (C), WG15 (POSIX), WG16 (Lisp), WG19 (Formal Specification Languages) for both VDM-SL and for Z, WG 20 (Internationalisation) and WG21 (C++). A new C# panel has been created in response to the ECMA fasttrack submission for C# and Common Language Infrastructure. Concerns Active participation continues to be a concern to the UK, especially of cross-language groups such as WG11 and WG20. WG20 has continued to concern us in other ways. Many of our experts continue to doubt the quality and usefulness of its work and we are recommending that maintenance of ISO/IEC 14651 be transferred to JTC1/SC2. Following that and the publication of all outstanding projects we will be recommending that WG20 be disbanded. The UK is still concerned about the maintenance of the C# and Common Language Infrastructure standards, although not about the technical content. One of our panel members is participating directly in the ECMA revision activity, however this is on an informal basis and not as a UK representative. A separate document is being prepared to address these concerns, even if only for future Fastrack standards. With regard to Linux we believe that it is useful for the general Unix and Linux communities for Linux standardisation to take place, but that this should be allocated to SC22/WG15. Sally Seitz Program Administrator 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: (212) 642-4918 Fax: (212) 840-2298