ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N736


              RESOLUTIONS OF THE WG5 MEETING ON 24 TO 28 JUNE 1991
                                IN LUND, SWEDEN.


L1.  WG5 Convenorship

That WG5 appreciates the leadership of Jeanne Martin as convenor of the Working
Group and expresses its wish to SC22 and to the US member body that she be
reappointed for a further term.

Individual vote:19 yes - 0 no - 3 abstain  Country vote: 5 yes - 0 no - 1 abstain

L2.  Working Group Convenorships

That WG5 requests SC22 to review the procedures for appointing convenors of its
working groups and requests that these procedures allow for the inclusion of
recommendations from the working groups.

Individual vote: 21 - 0 - 1                             Country vote: 5 - 0 - 1

L3.  Fortran 90 Publicity

That WG5 urges all its members and member body Fortran committees and their
parent committees to publicize further the content and use of the International
Fortran Standard in their countries now that the standard has been approved.

Individual vote: 22 - 0 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L4.  Language Independent Standards Review

That WG5 requests its members, and member body Fortran committees, to review as
a matter of urgency the documents on Common Language Independent Data Types,
Common Language Independent Procedure Calling Mechanisms and Language
Compatible Arithmetic Standard, referenced in WG5/N733, with regard to their
relationship to Fortran and to comment on them to national programming language
committees, WG11 or SC22 secretariat as appropriate.

Individual vote: 22 - 0 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L5.  Maintenance of the International Fortran Standard

That WG5 recommends that X3J3 be requested to accept the responsibility for
maintaining, i.e.  producing corrigenda for, the International Fortran Standard
and requests SC22 to make the appropriate arrangements with the US member body.

Further that the WG5 convenor should appoint an individual member to serve as
liaison between WG5 and X3J3, to record and acknowledge any requests for
clarification, interpretation or correction of the International Fortran
Standard, to forward them to X3J3 for processing, to record corresponding
responses and to report them to WG5.

WG5 expresses its appreciation to Tom Lahey for volunteering to accept this
responsibility until July 31, 1992.

Individual vote: 22 - 0 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L6.  Maintenance of National Fortran Standards

That WG5 recommends to SC22 and all its member bodies that national Fortran
standards be maintained solely via maintenance of the International Fortran
Standard.

Individual vote: 22 - 0 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L7.  Bindings to Fortran

That WG5 proposes to produce guidelines for other standards groups on bindings
to the Fortran 90 language, assigns responsibility to the UK member body,
appoints David Muxworthy as editor and requests that a first draft be provided
to the convenor for circulation to WG5 by November 30, 1991.

Individual vote: 21 - 0 - 1                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L8.  Varying String Module Processing

That WG5 requests Lawrie Schonfelder as 22.02.02 project editor to submit by
September 30, 1991 a revised version of WG5/N700 to the WG5 convenor for
circulation to WG5 with a letter ballot to authorize its submission to the SC22
secretariat for registration as a CD, the timing to be such that comments on
the CD be available at the WG5 meeting to be held on July 27-31, 1992.

Individual vote: 21 - 1 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L9.  Varying String Module Rationale

That WG5 requests the German member body, in collaboration with the project
editor, to prepare the rationale for the varying string module requested in
WG5/N699 and to forward it to the WG5 convenor by September 30, 1991.  The
convenor is to circulate the document to WG5.

Individual vote: 21 - 1 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L10.  Technical Reports on Guidelines

That WG5 draws the attention of its members, and members of Fortran standard
groups in national bodies, to the following technical reports:

TR 10034  Guidelines for the preparation of conformity clauses in programming
          language standards (WG5/N610)
TR 10176  Guidelines for preparation of programming language standards (when
          published)
TR 10182  Guidelines for language bindings (when published).

Further that WG5 would welcome reviews in relation to the future needs of
Fortran development and discussion documents, position papers or proposals
relating to the adoption of relevant guidelines in future Fortran standards
activities.

Individual vote: 20 - 0 - 1                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L11.  Study for Future Evolution

That WG5 records its intent to proceed with a study to determine the
requirements for future evolution of Fortran standardization with the object of
developing proposals for possible new work items on this topic by the July
1992, or the following, WG5 meeting.  The study will take the provisions of
JTC1/N1381 (WG5/N719) into account.

Individual vote: 21 - 1 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L12.  Procedures for Future Development

That WG5, in order to progress discussion on the future evolution of Fortran
prior to the WG5 meeting in July 1992, establishes the following procedures and
schedule:

-    a subgroup is appointed, consisting of the following members: Bert
     Buckley, Jeanne Martin (chair), Ivor Philips, Karl-Heinz Rotthaeuser,
     Lawrie Schonfelder, Hideo Wada and Jerry Wagener,
-    to facilitate communication, Ivor Philips will establish an e-mail network
     for the subgroup,
-    the subgroup is to develop, starting from WG5/N710 and taking into account
     other relevant WG5 papers, a management plan and procedures for the future
     evolution of Fortran standards, including procedures both for the
     development of the content of new work item proposals and the execution of
     the work item(s),
-    members of WG5 are encouraged to make written contributions to the
     subgroup,
-    the subgroup should meet if necessary before April 1992 to produce a draft
     plan,
-    the draft plan should be circulated by the convenor for letter ballot by
     WG5 members so that the results are available at the July 1992 WG5 meeting.

Individual vote: 21 - 1 - 0                             Country vote: 6 - 0 - 0

L13.  Appreciation of X3J3

That WG5 expresses its most sincere appreciation to X3J3 and its editor for
completing the Fortran 90 document so that it could be forwarded to ISO Central
Secretariat on the schedule established by WG5 resolution L1 of March 1991.

Passed by unanimous acclaim

L14.  Vote of Thanks for Support

That WG5 thanks the Swedish member body, Asea Brown Boveri AB and the
University of Lund for generously supporting the meeting.

Passed by unanimous acclaim

L15.  Vote of Thanks

That WG5 wishes to express its appreciation to the Convenor (Jeanne Martin),
the vice chair (Bert Buckley), the secretary (Mike Roth), the librarian
(Maureen Hoffert), the drafting committee and the host (the Department of
Computer Science of the Technical University of Lund) for their contributions
to the success of the meeting.

Further that WG5 wishes especially to thank Ingemar Dahlstrand and Lena
Dahlquist for their highly successful organization of the local arrangements
and social events.

Passed by unanimous acclaim