ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1792

                  Convener's report from SC22 meeting

                             John Reid


1. Closing date for the Final CD ballot on F2008

Sally Seitz, SC22 Secretary, told me that she made a mistake over the 
closing date for the Final CD ballot. It is 29 December, not 29 November,
since this is a 4-month ballot. 


2. Corrigendum 5 for Fortran 2003

While presenting my report, I mentioned that WG5 planned to have one 
further corrigendum on Fortran 2003. The sentiment in plenary was negative,
so I discussed this further with the chairman, secretary, and two other 
conveners over lunch. While there is no rule against it, the advice was 
unanimously against it. I therefore propose that we continue processing 
F2003 interpretations until the end of the November meeting, then hold 
the usual J3 and WG5 ballots, then create the usual defect report and 
corrigendum, but do not be send them to SC22. The corresponding edits to 
F2008 should be mentioned in a country ballot.


3. TR on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C

A year's extension was granted for the TR on Further Interoperability of 
Fortran with C. Note that our plan (see N1781) is to forward the PDTR
to SC22 in April 2010. John Benito, C convener, said he would be pleased
to look at a draft once it is reasonably polished. 


4. Alternate Submission Form for National Body Comments

Jim Moore explained the problems faced by WG23 (Vulnerabilites) in handling
the large number of comments it received on its draft TR with the ISO 
Comment Template (WORD). He suggested instead the use of the Excel-based 
template currently used by SC 7. SC22 agreed that this would be a big 
improvement and encouraged National Bodies to use it for short comments
(it was agreed last year that extensive comments should be submitted in 
separate documents).


5. Netherlands Contribution on Growth of Language Standards

There was a discussion of a paper from the Netherlands (SC22 N4484) titled
"Contribution on the Growth of Programming Language Standards", following
which SC22 recommended its Working Group Conveners to distribute the paper 
to their working groups as an SC 22 recommended document on guidance to 
address the issues identified. I have made this document N1793, but do
not see how we can take any action now without breaking Tokyo resolution T7
on the technical content of Fortran 2008 and delaying the new standard
with further CDs.