ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1733 Announcement Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 November 16-21, 2008 Hosted by ITSCJ, the Japanese National Committee for JTC 1 Kikai Shinko Kaikan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan The next meeting of WG5 will be held at Kikai Shinko Kaikan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan from November 16-21, 2008, hosted by ITSCJ, the Japanese National Committee for JTC 1. The local organizer is Professor Masayuki Takata, Edogawa University, Nagareyama, Chiba 270-0198 Japan (phone:+81-4-7152-0661ext546 fax:+81-4-7154-2490 http://www.edogawa-u.ac.jp/~takata, email: takata@edogawa-u.ac.jp). 1. OBJECTIVES OF THE MEETING The major items of business for this meeting will be: A. Review of the ballot comments on the draft (N1723) for the next revision of Part 1 of the Fortran Standard and decide on any technical changes to be made. B. Construct a preliminary draft of the TR on further interoperability with C. C. Consider the defect reports (interpretations) in J3-006. 2. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING At the start on Sunday, 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. Closing business for both J3 and WG5 will be on Friday. 3. DOCUMENTS It is essential that all delegates have access to the Fortran 2003 DIS (N1601), the committee draft for the revision of Fortran 2003 (N1723), and the defect reports (J3-006) at the meeting. Delegates should also bring all documents from N1690 onwards. 4. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS The local host has prepared a separate document (N1734) 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 hosts 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: J.K.Reid@rl.ac.uk