ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1440

                      BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
                COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (IST/5)
	
       UK National Activity Report presented to the meeting of
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), London, U.K., July 30 - August 3, 2001

                        David Muxworthy
                 IST/5/-/5 (Fortran) Convenor
                        July 26, 2001


Membership and meetings
The BSI Fortran Panel has 26 members, including observers.  Most of the
panel's business is conducted by e-mail and it meets only when there are
issues to be resolved which cannot be decided otherwise.  There have
been no panel meetings since the last WG5 meeting.  One member is also
an active member of J3. 

The project editors for the two Technical Reports and for part 2 of the
Fortran standard are members of the BSI panel. 

JTC1 and SC22 votes
BSI voted as follows in the Fortran-related ballots since the last WG5
meeting:

Technical corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 1539:1997                 yes

Formal British adoption of Fortran 95
It was reported last year that the BSI policy of not adopting an ISO
standard until it had been endorsed as an EN (European standard) had
caused an unconscionable delay in adopting Fortran 95 as a British
standard.  News has finally reached BSI that CEN have withdrawn
Fortran 90 and the BSI secretariat are pressing ahead with procedures
belatedly to adopt Fortran 95 as a British standard.  This has had no
technical effect, but could have had legal implications, for example for
contracts. 

Fortran Standard sales in electronic form
Following the establishment of the ANSI Electronic Standards Store which
sells the ANSI edition of the current ISO Fortran standard in pdf format
for $18 per copy, BSI is being pressed to adopt a similar policy.  BSI
is sympathetic but there is no decision as yet. 

British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group
The British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group has 247 members. 
It has held one meeting during the year, at which two members gave
presentations and there was a showing of the IBM film on the origins of
Fortran.