From jwagener@amoco.com Tue Feb 14 06:00:34 1995 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA19113 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 14 Feb 1995 19:01:23 +0100 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id AA09243 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk); Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:01:02 -0600 Message-Id: <199502141801.AA09243@interlock.amoco.com> Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-3); Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:01:02 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-2); Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:01:02 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-1); Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:01:02 -0600 From: jwagener@amoco.com X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 12:00:34 -0600 Subject: JTC1 document strategy To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Item Subject: Message text In this month's stack of mail from the X3 secretariat there is an interesting report (X3/95-0098) on the JTC1 plans for international standards documents. For our purposes, the following quote from this report sort of sums up the strategy: "Each JTC1 Subcommittee and Working Group Secretariat [jlw note: I presume this means/includes WG5] *shall* obtain and publish an electronic address. ... All drafts associated with a project that is approved after February 1, 1995 [jlw note: this won't affect Fortran 95, but will affect Fortran 2000] shall be maintained and distributed in electronic form through the entire standards process through publication. Format will be as per JTC1 Secretariat Guideline. The Guideline providing the format is under deveolpment and is anticipated on being available by March 1, 1995. For work in progress [jlw note: i.e., Fortran 95] (CD stage and beyond) Project Editors *shall* be required to submit their texts in electronic form irrespective of format." Of course, we won't have any trouble with this for Fortran 95, but it will be interesting to see how restrictive the Guideline is going to be (though I wouldn't expect any problem with that either). They do ask for input, so if you have any strong feelings or potent insights you can send them to the secretariat (jpemard@itic.nw.dc.us). What I found most interesting about this report is (what I perceive to be) the implication that distribution via network is encouraged (though diskette is an acceptable means), and consequently the imminence of the irresistible force (unrestricted internet distribution) meeting the immovable object (ISO copyright policy). The unfolding collision will be most interesting to watch. Jerry