ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N2083

                   Convener's report from SC22 meeting,
                   Washington DC, 14-15 September 2015

                      John Reid, 25 September 2015


1. SC22 votes on corrigenda

There was concern from the convenor of WG9 (Ada) that the SC22 secretary
had not sent their corrigendum for SC22 ballot. She was not able to be
present at the meeting, so the reason for the delay was not apparent.
A resolution was passed instructing her to issue the ballot. WG5 will
have a corrigendum ready soon, so another resolution was passed instructing
her to issue an SC22 ballot for this upon its receipt.

2. Linux Standard

There was much discussion about SC22's Linux Standard Implementation Study
Group. This was established two years ago to work with the Linux Foundation
to plan updating the ISO standard to bring it into line with the publicly
available specification. Resolution 13-04 said "If a plan is not submitted
by the 2014 JTC 1 SC 22 Plenary, JTC 1 SC 22 will recommend that
ISO/IEC 23360 be withdrawn." An extension of a year was granted in 2014
and now another extension was requested. The countries present were
deadlocked 4-4 on the issue. There were two resolutions on the table
associated with this issue. It was decided to defer them to 3-month letter
ballots of SC22.

3. Livelink

The convenor of WG17 (Prolog) expressed concern over restricting WG17's
working documents to registered experts. The rules were explained by the
acting secretary and there appeared to be acceptance that SC22 that was
powerless to change them.

4. Changes to directives

Attention was drawn to some changes in the directives. SC chairs will be
restricted to 3 terms (9 years). Only one 9-month extension will be allowed
for a project that runs behind schedule. For a revision of a standard,
a New Work Item will not be needed; instead an SC22 resolution will be
sufficient. For WG5, it means that we should ask SC22 at its 2016 meeting
(Sept 12-13) to approve our revision. If we want a fifth corrigendum, it
will need to be ready well before then; note that a 3-month SC22 ballot is
needed.