To:	WG5 members

From:	Miles Ellis _ Convenor

Subject:	Various matters

Date:	27th July 1995





1.		Introduction



This distribution contains three groups of papers.



The first group comprises papers N1127 and N1128, which are the formal

announcement of the next meeting of WG5 in San Diego, 6-10 November 1995, and

the provisional agenda for that meeting.  When I proposed, and WG5 agreed, that

paper distributions be replaced by electronic ones, these items, and the minutes of

meetings, were explicitly excluded, and will continue to be distributed in paper form _

at least for the foreseeable future.



The second group consists of papers N1130, N1131 and N1132, which are the three

requests to SC22 for subdivision of our main work item to allow the production of

Type 2 Technical Reports which were agreed in Tokyo, with the procedure modified to

subdivision instead of new projects following the email ballot on the change in

procedure.  I have more to say about these below.



The third group consists of two formal documents (N1126 and N1129) that I am

required to provide for the SC22 plenary, and which might as well be distributed to

WG5 for information with the other papers, together with an updated document

register and this letter.





2.		WG5 ftp server and www home page



At the Tokyo meeting of WG5 it was agreed to set up an official WG5 ftp server, with

appropriate mirror sites to simplify access, and our own set of pages on the World

Wide Web.  Both of these have now been established, after a brief hiatus caused by the

withdrawal of CERN from Fortran standardisation, as they had originally agreed to

support both of these.



NAG have very kindly agreed to provide the necessary facilities for the primary WG5

ftp server, although we anticipate that the contents will be mirrored in various other

places.  Full details will be announced as the arrangements are established.  The

address for the WG5 server is



	ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5



Regular documents are available in three formats - RTF, text, and WordPerfect 2.1

(Macintosh);  the latter is simply because that is the format that I have put them all

into on my computer, and may be more useful than RTF for those who wish a fully

formatted version.



Full details of what is available, and where, will be found in the README file in the

top level directory.



The WG5 WWW pages are being mounted on my own department's WWW server,

and can be accessed from the following URL:



	http://www.etrc.oc.ac.uk/wg5.html



It is also be possible to gain access to the WG5 ftp server via the WG5 WWW pages.



Please let me have any comments that you may have on either of these services, and

suggestions for improvement _ preferably by email.





3.	Requests for subdivision of the main WG5 work item to allow the

production of certain Technical Reports



Papers N1130, N1131 and N1132 contain the requests for subdivision to allow work on

the three Technical Reports that were agreed by WG5 in Tokyo.



Those people who have agreed to participate in the relevant Development Bodies are

as follows:



a)		Portable Floating-Point Exception Handling in Fortran



	Keith Bierman (US/X3J3)

	Richard Hanson (US/IFIP WG2.5)

	Kurt Hirchert (US/X3J3)

	John Reid (UK) _ nominated to SC22 as editor

	Lawrie Schonfelder (UK)

	Jerry Wagener (US)

	Wolfgang Walter (D)



b)		Interoperability between Fortran and C



	Graham Barber (UK/X3J3)

	Miles Ellis (Convenor) _ nominated to SC22 as editor

	Michael Hennecke (D)

	David Loveman (US)

	Linda O'Gara (US/X3J3)

	Henry Zongaro (US/X3J3)



In the absence of any volunteers to take on the role of project editor for this TR I am

nominating myself, as I think that this is a particularly important area for the future

of Fortran.  However, I don't really want to do it, so if anyone else would be willing to

volunteer I would be most happy to hand over the mantle to them.



c)		Enhancement of derived type facilities in Fortran



	Malcolm Cohen (UK)

	David Epstein (US/X3J3)	

	Lawrie Schonfelder (UK) - nominated to SC22 as editor

	Masayuki Takata (J)





Please review the documents that have already been submitted to SC22, as required by

various resolutions, and let me have any comments as soon as possible, and certainly

no later than 8th September, in order that I can discuss them with the proposed

project editor(s) and, if necessary, produce modified versions for SC22 to vote on at the

Plenary instead of the previously circulated ones.



Furthermore, if anyone else is interested in joining any of the above development

bodies, please let me know as soon as possible.