ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1927

                 RESOLUTIONS OF THE WG5 MEETING
          ON JUNE 25 TO JUNE 29, 2012 IN MARKHAM, CANADA

The meeting was attended by the convenor and eleven members,
representing six member bodies.  Resolutions M1, M2, M3, M11 and M12
were approved by unanimous acclaim.  Resolutions M4, M5, M6, M7, M8, M9
and M10 were approved by unanimous consent.


M1.  Appreciation of Project Editor
WG5 particularly congratulates the Project Editor, Malcolm Cohen, for
the high quality and speed of his work.  WG5 also congratulates him on
his IEC 1906 award for 'exceptional current achievements of experts'.


M2.  Appreciation for Corrigendum 1
WG5 thanks David Muxworthy for his excellent work in producing
Technical Corrigendum 1.


M3.  Appreciation for Further C Interoperability Development
WG5 thanks Bill Long as Project Editor and the Further C
Interoperability TS development body for producing the DTS document
N1917.


M4.  Varying Length Strings
WG5 expresses its thanks to John Reid for investigating the level of
effort needed to bring the complete ISO_VARYING_STRING functionality
into the current standard using character variables instead of objects
of a derived type.  WG5 notes that converting the procedures of Part 2
of the Standard, ISO/IEC 1539-2:1994, to work in the same way is neither
trivial nor entirely transparent; however, WG5 decides that, with the
renewal of Part 2, no further action is needed at this time.


M5. Removal of CD Stage from SC22 Process
WG5 directs its convenor to state that a CD stage or equivalent is
needed to obtain comments on the technical content of standards from the
public.  This is because no Working Group, no matter how expert and
experienced, can have the breadth of expertise and understanding of
the range of issues that all users of the standard do, collectively.
WG5 expresses its concern that the quality of standards may suffer if
there is less opportunity for the public to comment on standards before
the technical content is finalised.


M6.  Strategic Plan for WG5
WG5 adopts document WG5-N1925 as its strategic schedule for the next
three years.  WG5 resolves that the next revision shall consist of a
consolidation of the agreed editorial improvements, corrigenda and the
two Technical Specifications into the main standard, plus the removal of
simple deficiencies in, and discrepancies between, existing facilities.
The intent is to resolve issues that have been created by successive
extensions to Fortran, while minimising impact on the standard document,
implementors and other users.  The criterion for deciding whether a
change is simple is that it requires no more than a small amount of
editorial effort and no more than a small amount of implementation
effort.  Furthermore, WG5 resolves that no new significant language
extensions, beyond those mentioned in these resolutions, will be
considered until the process described in this resolution is complete.


M7.  Ballot on Outstanding Interpretations
WG5 directs its convenor to hold a ballot on the outstanding
interpretations agreed by J3, and to produce a corrigendum document
within this year.


M8.  Fortran Annex to TR 24772
WG5 directs its convenor to hold a ballot on document WG5-N1929 as the
Fortran Annex to TR 24772, Guidance to Avoiding Vulnerabilities in
Programming Languages through Language Selection and Use.  WG5 thanks
Dan Nagle as Liaison to WG23, and the Fortran Annex to TR 24772
development body for producing the document.


M9.  Further Parallel Features
WG5 adopts document WG5-N1930 as the requirements for a TS on Additional
Parallel Features in Fortran, and directs its convenor to request SC22
approval to proceed with this as a new work item.  WG5 thanks Bill Long,
John Reid and the Further Parallel TS development body for producing the
document.  WG5 thanks Bill Long for agreeing to be Project Editor.


M10.  Future Meetings
WG5 thanks Toon Moene for inviting WG5 and PL22.3 to meet in Delft, the
Netherlands, on June 24-28 2013, J3 for inviting WG5 and PL22.3 to meet
in Las Vegas, USA, on June 23-27 2014, and Jane Sleighthome and Ian
Chivers for inviting WG5 and PL22.3 to meet in London, UK, in August
2015.


M11.  Vote of Thanks for Support
WG5 thanks the management of IBM Toronto Laboratories for generously
providing the meeting rooms, IT facilities and refreshments for
participants at the meeting.


M12.  Vote of Thanks
That WG5 expresses its appreciation to the convenor (John Reid), the
secretary (Malcolm Cohen) and the drafting committee (Reinhold Bader,
Daniel Chen, Nick Maclaren, Toon Moene, Dan Nagle and Masayuki Takata
(chair)) for their contributions to the success of the meeting.  It
wishes especially to thank the host (Daniel Chen) for the excellent
arrangements for both the business and social parts of the meeting.