ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1768

                             Announcement

                   Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5
 
                            May 4-8, 2009

                            Las Vegas, USA     

The next meeting of WG5 will be held in Las Vegas, USA. The local organizer 
is Van Snyder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, 
Mail Stop 183-701, Pasadena,  CA 91109-8099, USA 
(Email: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov Phone: (818) 354-6271   Fax: (818) 393-5065).


1. OBJECTIVES OF THE MEETING

The major items of business for this meeting will be:

A. Review of the current draft for the next revision of Part 1 of the Fortran
   Standard and decide on any minor changes to be made, noting Resolution T7
   of the Tokyo 2008 meeting:
      That WG5 establishes that the technical content of the draft revised
      standard for Fortran which is scheduled to be submitted to SC22 for FCD
      ballot in 2009 shall be that in WG5-N1723 (also known as SC22 N4319
      and 08-007r2) as modified by the edits specified in WG5-N1760.
      The primary development body is encouraged to make editorial corrections
      and clarifications and to resolve inconsistencies, but the technical
      content should not be changed unless a serious flaw is found.

B. Decide on the Schedule for Revision, noting Resolution T8 of the Tokyo 
   2008 meeting:
      That WG5 records its intent to review the schedule for processing the
      revised document (WG5-N1693) at its May 2009 meeting.

C. Construct a preliminary draft of the TR on further interoperability with C.

D. Consider the defect reports (interpretations) in J3-006.


2. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING 

At the start on Monday, 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.

Since this is a 4 1/2 day meeting, there will be no excursion and delegates 
should expect important business to continue until 1200 on Friday.

3. DOCUMENTS

It is essential that all delegates have access to the Fortran 2003 DIS 
(N1601 or 04-007), the timetable for the next revision (N1693), the committee 
draft for the revision of Fortran 2003 (N1723), the defect reports (J3-006), 
and and the latest revision of Fortran 2008 (J3-007) at the meeting. 
Delegates should also bring all documents from N1730 onwards.


4. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS 

The local host will prepare a separate document (N1769) 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