ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1781

                         Strategic plans for WG5
                             
                                John Reid

1. Fortran 2003

The final corrigendum for Fortran 2003 will be constructed late in 2009. 
Thereafter, all outstanding interpretations will be addressed against
the Fortran 2008 standard.  


2. Fortran 2008

The schedule will be delayed from that of N1693 to allow one more J3 
meeting for work on the draft. Malcolm will construct the FCD after
the August J3 meeting and it will be reviewed before submission by a 
subcommittee consisting of Malcolm, Dan, Van, John.

The new schedule is

Stage
   WG5 review meeting                   2009-05 
   Final CD submitted for approval      2009-09
   Final CD ballot initiated            2009-10
   Final CD ballot comments available   2010-02
   WG5 approval of draft DIS (by email) 2010-04 
4  DIS registered                       2010-05
   DIS ballot initiated                 2010-05
   DIS ballot results available         2010-07
5  Standard published                   2010-08


3. TR on further interoperability with C

The current plan is for the first draft to be forwarded by March 2009
(see N1737, Convener's Report for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 2008 Plenary).

New plan:
 
   New draft constructed            2009-12   
   Draft reviewed by WG5            2010-02
   WG5 ballot                       2010-03
   PDTR forwarded to SC22           2010-04
   TR published                     2011-03

4. TR on further coarray features

New plan:

   First draft available            2010-07
   WG5 review draft                 2010-08
   New draft constructed by email   2011-01   
   Draft reviewed by J3             2011-02
   WG5 ballot                       2011-03
   PDTR forwarded to SC22           2011-04
   TR published                     2012-03


5. Next revision 

Consideration of plans for the revision of Fortran 2008 will not be started
before June 2012.