ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1703

                  Convener's report from SC22 meeting

                             John Reid

This is what happened at the 2007 SC22 meeting in Singapore that is 
relevant to WG5:

1. It was confirmed that corrigenda to a standard that is under 
revision are acceptable. When I first became convener, I asked for
advice on this and was told that they were not. I am not sure whether
this was wrong advice or the rules have changed. In any event, this 
is good news now. We should prepare a third corrigendum as soon 
as we have sufficient fully-processed interpretations. 

2. The TRs on exception handling and on allocatables will be 
withdrawn since their contents were incorporated in Fortran 2003.

3. It seems that I should not have applied for the TR on enhanced
interoperability with C until we were ready to do the work because of
the deadlines for work on a standard. Several other conveners made 
the same mistake. It has been 'registered as a preliminary work item',
which gives us about 18 months to produce a first draft. Bill Long
was confirmed as Editor.

4. Keith Brannon of ITTF attended the meeting and confirmed that SC22's
request has been accepted for the following procedure to be
adopted for the submission of documents to ITTF in Geneva:
   1. The project editor sends the approved format file (currently PDF)
      together with any additional source files necessary for ITTF to 
      note and verify changes.
   2. The ITTF lists the changes it requires.
   3. The project editor constructs a new approved format and source 
      files and sends them.
   4. Steps 2. and 3. are repeated until no changes are needed.
This should avoid the problems that we have been having. 

5. My request for a delay of 10 months to the timetable for revision
of the Fortran standard, was accepted (rounded up to a year).