ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1716

                     US ANSI/INCITS J3 FORTRAN TAG

          US National Activity Report presented to the meeting of
  ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), Las Vegas, NV, February 10 - 15, 2008


Membership and meetings

The US TAG (Technical Advisory Group) of the ANSI/INCITS J3 Fortran
committee consists of all members of J3 who are either self-unemployed US
residents, or are employed by a US-domiciled corporation.  There are
presently seven primary members, of whom three represent Fortran compiler
vendors, and one who represents a university.  Four alternate J3 members,
who have voting privileges only in the absence of their primary member,
are also part of US-TAG.  Two additional J3 members, and their
alternates, represent US-domiciled corporations, but choose to represent
the countries of their residence.  One primary member and one alternate
have recently withdrawn.  US-TAG meetings take place contemporaneously
with J3 meetings, usually on Thursday afternoon.  Visitors are welcome at
US-TAG meetings, but do not have voting privileges.

Activities

US-TAG business has consisted almost entirely of trivial minutiae forced
upon us by INCITS, with an occasional important ballot such as withdrawing
an obsolete standard.  Technical work is conducted within J3 acting as a
whole, rather than within US-TAG acting separately from J3.