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