ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1425

                             Announcement

                   Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5

                      30 July to 3 August 2001

                  British Standards Institution 
               389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL


The next meeting of WG5 will be held at the Headquarters of the British
Standards Institution, 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL, from 30th
July to 3rd August, 2001.  The local organizer is David Muxworthy
(d.muxworthy@ed.ac.uk). 


1. OBJECTIVES OF THE MEETING

There are three major items of business for this meeting:

A. Processing of interpretations of the Fortran 95 standard.

The most important task for the meeting will be the construction a
draft for Corrigendum 2 to the Fortran 95 standard. This will involve
the consideration of all defect reports (N1427) that indicate a need
for edits to the Fortran 95 standard.

B. Review of the content of Fortran 2000

WG5 will review its plans for the content of Fortran 2000 (N1413) and
prepare a summary of the changes from Fortran 95.  If any item in the
list of required contents still needs technical work, WG5 will provide
assistance to J3 in this task.

C. Review of the Fortran 2000 working draft 

WG5 will review the current Fortran 2000 working draft and provide
suggestions for changes for consideration at the next J3 meeting.


2. MEETING LOCATION

The meeting will be held at the headquarters of the British Standards
Institution in London. We would like to thank the British Standards
Institution for providing meeting rooms and copyimg facilities.   It
will start at 9am on Monday 30 July and is scheduled to finish at 1pm
on Friday 3 August, 2001.  The BSI building is some 6 miles west of
central London and is adjacent to Gunnersbury station on the London
underground system.  The postal address of the building is 389 Chiswick
High Road, London W4 4AL.  For contact during the meeting, the
telephone number is +44 20 8996 7442; the fax number is +44 20 8996
7448.


3. HOTEL ACCOMMODATION 

There are relatively few facilities for visitors in the immediate area
of the BSI building and arrangements for accommodation have been made
with the Vencourt Hotel, about one and a half miles away in Hammersmith. 
This is a modern hotel which has good public transport links to BSI and
to central London and which has a wide selection of restaurants and
shops within walking distance.  The discounted price for a single room
is GBP69.00; for a double room it is GBP89.10 (approximately USD103 and
USD134 or Euro109 and Euro140 respectively at the time of writing). 
The postal address of the hotel is: 255 King Street, Hammersmith, London
W6 9LU, telephone +44 20 8563 8855, fax +44 20 8563 9988, email
vencourt@bestwestern.co.uk. 

To reserve a room, please book direct with the hotel, mentioning "BSI
WG5 Fortran" in order to obtain the reduced rate.  You can book by
letter, fax or e-mail, specifying: your name including initials, arrival
and departure dates, credit card number to guarantee the booking and a
contact telephone number in case of any problems. 

More information about the meeting is given in N1426
ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1401-N1450/N1426.html


4. REGISTRATION

Heads of delegations are reminded that the names of those who will be
in their delegations should be communicated to both the Convenor and
the host (David Muxworthy, d.muxworthy@ed.ac.uk) no later
than one month before the start of the meeting.


5. FURTHER INFORMATION

In case of any questions or any difficulty, please contact David
Muxworthy, EUCS, JCMB, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, tel +44 131 650
3305, fax +44 131 650 6552, e-mail d.muxworthy@ed.ac.uk. 

Technical information is available via WG5's own web pages
(http://www.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/), or may be obtained directly from the
Convenor:

      John Reid,
      Atlas Centre,
      Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
      Didcot,
      Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
      England
      Tel: 01235 44 6493
      Fax: 01235 44 6626
      email: jkr@rl.ac.uk