From mellis@vax.ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 30 17:17:55 1995 Received: from oxmail2.ox.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA05881 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:22:58 +0100 Received: from vax.ox.ac.uk by oxmail2.ox.ac.uk. with SMTP (PP) id <05154-0@oxmail2.ox.ac.uk.>; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 17:22:44 +0000 Received: by vax.ox.ac.uk (MX V4.1 VAX) id 6; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 17:17:57 +0000 Sender: mellis@vax.ox.ac.uk Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 17:17:55 +0000 From: Miles Ellis To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Cc: mellis@vax.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: <0098B3ED.E327F3F8.6@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Papers for Tokyo X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Dear WG5-ers, As you will know from Jeanne Martin's email last week, I have been nominated by the BSI as Convenor of WG5 in succession to Jeanne, following the US decision to relinquish the Secretariat. Although there will have to be a letter ballot within SC22, Jeanne has asked me if I will take over from her with immediate effect (on an "acting Convenor" basis) since, as you know, she no longer has any funding for any Fortran standards activities from her employers. Since this will involve the distribution of documents prior to the Tokyo meeting, I thought that I should contact evryone by email now to inform you all of the altered arrangements. First of all, any papers for distribution before the Tokyo meeting should be sent to me, either electronically to or by post to Dr Miles Ellis Director Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford 37-41 Wellington Square OXFORD OX1 2JF ENGLAND Any such papers should arrive NO LATER THAN FRIDAY 3RD MARCH 1995 if they are to be included in the pre-Tokyo distribution. The main item in this distribution will be the draft text of Fortran 95, and this will be placed on the X3J3 ftp server on March 3rd. Since the cost of copying and distributing such a large document is quite large, I would very much appreciate it if anyone who intends to make their own copy of the document would inform me so that I can avoid sending them an extra copy. (Note that by agreement with X3J3, none of the US members of WG5 will be sent a copy of this document as they are all used to printing their own copies for use within X3J3.) Apart from this, the distribution will be carried out much as before. However, I strongly believe that we should make more use of electronic forms of document dissemination in the future, wherever possible, and propose to add a discussion of this subject to the agenda in Tokyo. The second point that I should like to make is that the primary purpose of the Tokyo meeting is to finalise the document that will be submitted for CD ballot. Although X3J3 has worked very hard to complete the integration of the new features, there is still work to be done, and we shall need to go through the draft standard very carefully in Tokyo. I very much hope, therefore, that all member bodies will send good-sized delegations so that we can give X3J3, which is meeting in Maui the following week, a complete list of all changes that are to be made to the draft before it is sent to SC22. Finally, I should like to say that Jeanne Martin will be a hard act to follow, and I hope that you will forgive me if things don't go quite as smoothly as I might hope from time to time while I am getting the feel of things. I look forward to seeing many of you in Tokyo, Miles ***************************************************************************** * * * From: Miles Ellis * * Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre * * University of Oxford * * 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF * * * * Telephone: +44 865 270528 Fax: +44 865 270527 * * Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk * * * *****************************************************************************