ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N2131

                       RESOLUTIONS OF THE WG5 MEETING
                 ON JUNE 26 TO 30, 2017 IN GARCHING, GERMANY

The meeting was attended by the convenor and 17 members from six
national member bodies.  Resolutions G1 to G5 and G10 to G12 were
approved by unanimous acclaim.  Resolutions G6 to G9 were approved
by unanimous consent.

G1.  Retiring Convenor of WG5
WG5 expresses its utmost thanks for the guidance and support its
retiring convenor, John Reid, has given the Working Group over the
past eighteen years and for all the work he has done on behalf of
Fortran and of standards more generally.

G2. Convenor-elect of WG5
WG5 welcomes the proposal of the United States member body to assume
the secretariat of WG5 and the nomination of Steve Lionel as convenor
and urges all member bodies to endorse this nomination at the
forthcoming SC22 plenary meeting.

G3.  Appreciation of Project Editor
WG5 again congratulates the Project Editor, Malcolm Cohen, for the
high quality and speed of his work.

G4.  Appreciation of INCITS/PL22.3
WG5 expresses its appreciation to PL22.3 for successfully progressing
development of the draft Fortran standard to CD status in accordance
with the schedule in the 2016 Fortran strategic plan (WG5-N2106).

G5. Appreciation for presentations
WG5 expresses its appreciation to Rainer Oesmann for his presentation
on developments at the Centre for Virtual Reality and Visualisation
(V2C) and to Volker Weinberg and Reinhold Bader for conducting the
tours of the LRZ computing facilities.

G6.  Strategic Plan for WG5
WG5 adopts document WG5-N2129 as its strategic plan for the next three
years.

G7.  Disposition of comments on the Fortran 2015 CD
WG5 adopts document WG5-N2133 as its formal Disposition of Comments
response to the comments in the CD ballot.

G8.  Technical Content of Fortran 2015 DIS
WG5 adopts document WG5-N2134 as the draft revised standard for
Fortran to be submitted for DIS ballot.

G9. TR on Avoiding Vulnerabilities in Programming Languages
WG5 requests Dan Nagle, as editor of TR24772-8 'Guidance to Avoiding
Vulnerabilities in Programming Languages - Part 8 Fortran', to progress
the document to DTR ballot status during the next year and encourages
members to contribute to the development.

G10.  Future Meetings
WG5 thanks Damian Rouson for inviting WG5 to meet in Berkeley, CA, on
June 11 - 15, 2018.  WG5 also thanks Jerry Wagener for organizing a
meeting of both current and former Fortran committee members on June
9 and 10, 2018.  Further, WG5 thanks Masayuki Takata for inviting WG5
to meet in Tokyo, Japan, on August 5 - 9, 2019.

WG5 intends that its summer 2020 meeting shall be in the USA and
invites members to consider possible locations.

G11.  Vote of Thanks for Support
WG5 thanks the management of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre for
generously providing the meeting rooms, IT facilities and refreshments
for participants at the meeting.  WG5 especially thanks Frau Helga
Tyroller for organizing the continuous provision of refreshments and
general administrative support for the meeting.

G12.  Vote of Thanks
WG5 expresses its appreciation to the convenor (John Reid), the
secretary (David Muxworthy) and the drafting committee (Reinhold Bader,
Daniel Chen, Toon Moene, David Muxworthy (chair), Jon Steidel and
Masayuki Takata) for their contributions to the success of the meeting.

WG5 wishes especially to thank Reinhold Bader as host for the excellent
arrangements for the business and social parts of the meeting and
particularly for his most unexpected and polished performance as lead
fiddle for the Bluegrass band.