ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1976

                       BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION                  
                 COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (IST/5)

          UK National Activity Report presented to the meeting of
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5(Fortran), Delft, The Netherlands on June 24 - 28, 2013 

Membership and meetings
Membership of the BSI Fortran Panel has changed during the year but
there continue to be 18 members, including observers.  One member of
the BSI Panel is also a member of J3 and one member is WG5 convenor
and an alternate member of J3.  The panel meets only when there are
issues to be resolved which cannot be decided otherwise. There have
been no meetings since the last WG5 meeting.

Activity
Since the last WG5 meeting the principal activity of members of the
panel has been to participate in the various ongoing discussions in
WG5, including on the Vulnerabilities Annex.  The panel has produced
a paper with detailed proposals for the revision of Fortran 2008;
this is document WG5-N1975.

JTC1 and SC22 ballots
In the ballots on the NWIP on the Additional Parallel Features in
Fortran TS and the second Technical Corrigendum for Fortran 2008 the
UK votes were both approval.

British Fortran Standards
As noted in previous reports, BSI often reissues ISO standards as
national standards. The Panel has so far been unsuccessful in
persuading BSI to withdraw the counterpart of ISO/IEC 1539-3:1999
which is still a formal BS.  Indeed BSI is still offering for sale at
full price withdrawn Fortran standards from Fortran 77 onwards.  The
panel continues to urge BSI to review this policy.

Acknowledgement
The BSI Fortran Panel gratefully acknowledges financial assistance
from the British Computer Society Membership Board towards members'
attendance at standards meetings during 2012-2013.

David Muxworthy
BSI IST/5/-/5 (Fortran) Convenor
June 12, 2013