ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N2128

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

           UK National Activity Report presented to the meeting of
   ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5(Fortran), Garching, Germany on June 26 - 30, 2017

Membership and meetings
The BSI Fortran Panel conducts its business by email.  Including
observers it has 18 members, having gained two and lost one during the
past year. Eleven members are registered in the ISO Global Directory of
Working Group members.

Activity
During the past year the principal activity has been (a) deciding the
UK votes in the JTC1 and SC22 ballots and (b) participation in the
various ongoing discussions in WG5.

JTC1 and SC22 ballots
The UK voted 'approval with comments' on the Fortran 2015 CD and
'stabilize' in the systematic review of the part 2 of the Fortran
standard.  The comments are included with others in document
WG5-N2125.

British Edition of the Fortran 2008 Standard
In October 2016 BSI HQ published a version of the ISO Fortran 2008
standard which integrated the edits from the four technical
corrigenda.  This was done without communication with the BSI Fortran
panel and the document contained errors.  A review of the first 60 of
the 620 pages found occasional errors in specifying from which
corrigendum the edits had originated and in one case substantive text
had been incorrectly deleted.  The document was withdrawn from sale.
It was agreed with BSI Editorial Services that they should produce a
corrected version to be checked by members of the panel but it was
later decided that it would be easier for the BS to consist simply of
the ISO standard with the four corrigenda added as appendices at the
back of the document.  This version was published in March 2017.
 
David Muxworthy
BSI IST/5/-/5 (Fortran) Convenor
June 21, 2017