ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1502

                             Announcement

                   Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5

                      March 30 - April 4, 2003

            Residence Inn, Hughes Center, Las Vegas, USA 


The next meeting of WG5 will be held at the Residence Inn, Hughes
Center, Las Vegas, from March 30 - April 4, 2003.  The local organizer
is Mallory North (Charles.M.North@Rose-Hulman.Edu).


1. OBJECTIVES OF THE MEETING

There is only one major item of business for this meeting:

A. Responding to the National Body comments Committee Draft of Fortran 2000

The most important task for the meeting will be the consideration of
the National Body comments (N1506) on the Committee Draft of Fortran
2000 (N1497), deciding what technical changes should be made in the
light of these comments, and writing responses to the National Bodies.

Other items of business will be 

B. Establishment of a new Repository of Requirements (see N1496).

C. Consideration of outstanding Fortran 95 interpretations (see N1505).


2. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING 

For the whole of Sunday and for part of Friday, this will be a normal
WG5 meeting.  For the rest of the time, the meeting will be a joint
meeting with J3. Much of the time will be spent in sub-groups of all
the delegates present. There will also be plenary sessions, either of
WG5 with John Reid in the chair or of J3 with Dan Nagle in the chair.
The exact timings will be agreed between John and Dan from day to day.


3. DOCUMENTS

It is essential that all delegates have access to the Fortran 2000 CD
at the meeting. Delegates should also bring N1490, N1491, N1493, N1496
and all documents from N1499 onwards.


4. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS 

The local host will is Mallory North (Charles.M.North@Rose-Hulman.Edu),
who has prepared a separate document (N1503) with details of local 
arrangements. 


5. REGISTRATION

Heads of delegations are reminded that the names of those who will be
in their delegations should be communicated to both the Convener and
the host (Mallory North, Charles.M.North@Rose-Hulman.Edu) no later
than one month before the start of the meeting.


6. FURTHER INFORMATION

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

      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