ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1684

                    INCITS/ANSI FORTRAN COMMITTEE J3

            US National Activity Report presented to the meeting of
        ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), London, UK, August 6 - 10, 2007

Since the February 2006 joint J3/WG5 meeting in Fairfax, VA, J3 has met
five times in Las Vegas, NV, in May, August and November 2006, and
February and May 2007.

Most of the effort at each of these meetings was devoted to completion of
the work plan outlined in J3 standing document 06-010r3, with most of the
remaining effort devoted to interpretation processing.

Most of the items on the work plan are completed.  The remaining
unresolved technical issues are summarized here:

UTI  Area       Paper   Summary
102  Interop            Problems with undefinition of C_PTR and C_FUNPTR
112  Co-arrays  07-251  Image control statement problems with OPEN
117  Co-arrays  07-252  Error termination of an image
118  Co-arrays  07-253  Error termination of an image
119  Co-arrays  07-254  Collective subroutines "return" an array
120  Co-arrays  07-255  Initial values of co-arrays
121  Co-arrays  07-256  Meaning of VOLATILE for co-arrays
122  Exprs      07-263  Inconsistent rules on inquiry functions in
                        specification expressions
123  Pointers           Pointer association status and default
                        initialization needs checking
124  Interop    07-124  Nonsense about actual argument declaration and
                        addresses
125  Co-arrays  07-257  Incorrect statement in co-array description
126  Co-arrays  07-258  Missing semantics for allocatable co-arrays in C02

Issues 102, 122, 123 and 124 do not apply directly to any item in
06-010r2.  Issue 102 is loosely related to co-arrays.  All the remaining
issues are related to co-arrays.

Issue 123 requests to double-check some work the editor did without
specific direction from a J3 meeting paper.

This leaves issue 102 as the only serious issue not addressed by a paper
for the present meeting.

As measured by unresolved techical issues, every work item other than
co-arrays (UK-001) is complete.  Aleks Donev has reservations about macros
(J3-014), but his objections as expressed in N1683 appear primarily to be
that the design was not more ambitious.

Van Snyder
ANSI/INCITS J3 International Representative
26 July 2007