ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1812

                         Strategic plans for WG5
                             
                                John Reid

1. Interpretations

After the February 2010 meeting of WG5, all outstanding interpretations 
will be addressed against the Fortran 2008 standard.  


2. Fortran 2008

Malcolm Cohen will construct the FDIS after the February 2010 meeting of 
WG5 and it will be reviewed by a WG5 email ballot. A subcommittee 
consisting of Malcolm Cohen, Dan Nagle, Van Snyder, and John Reid will 
review the ballot comments, Malcolm Cohen will make any further edits 
needed, and the subcommitee will check these before submission.

The new schedule is:

Stage
   WG5 approval of FDIS (by email) 2010-04 
4  FDIS registered                 2010-05
   FDIS ballot initiated           2010-05
   FDIS ballot results available   2010-07
5  Standard published              2010-08

Only very minor corrections are permitted following the FDIS ballot; these
are not permitted to be editorial or technical. Any such corrections will
be reviewed by the same subcommitee. 




3. TR 29113 on further interoperability with C

The new schedule is:
 
   First draft reviewed by WG5      2010-02
   Second draft                     2010-10
   WG5 ballot                       2010-11
   PDTR forwarded to SC22           2010-12
   PDTR ballot initiated            2011-01   
   PDTR ballot comments available   2011-04   
   DTR constructed                  2011-06  
   DTR ballot initiated             2011-07   
   DTR ballot results available     2011-10   
   TR published                     2011-11  

4. TR on further coarray features

The new schedule is:

   First draft                      2011-02
   Second draft reviewed by WG5     2011-06
   Third draft                      2011-10
   WG5 ballot                       2011-11
   PDTR forwarded to SC22           2011-12
   PDTR ballot initiated            2012-01   
   PDTR ballot comments available   2012-04   
   DTR constructed                  2012-06  
   DTR ballot initiated             2012-07   
   DTR ballot results available     2012-10   
   TR published                     2012-11  
   


5. Next revision 

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