[J3] [SC22WG5.6361] ISO SC22 Annual Meeting

[Van Snyder]

On Wed, 2021-08-25 at 16:32 -0400, Steve Lionel via J3 wrote:
> ISO SC22 held its annual meeting earlier this week. There was nothing
> directly impacting Fortran, but there were some items of interest.
> 
> First, there had been a concern earlier regarding ISO JTC1's sliding
> three-month window for prohibiting in-person meetings. This posed
> problems for large WGs that wanted to cancel venue contracts farther
> out because they couldn't point to an ISO policy giving them "air
> cover". So SC22 created their own policy doing so. This was deemed no
> longer necessary, and JTC1's policy was now sufficient, so SC22
> resolved to remove the F2F restriction immediately.
> 
> Second, ISO has decided that Technical Reports (TRs) shall not
> contain specifications nor recommendations. This posed a problem for
> WG23, whose document was a TR (TR24772). In response, WG23 requested
> a new project to create a full standard containing the work done by
> WG23. Furthermore, they requested that this become a "Freely
> Available Standard". SC22 is submitting this request to JTC1.

The new Draft International Ada Standard (WG9) was approved for
submission to ISO. They anticipate publication in 20 months, unless
technical changes are requested during balloting.
> 
> Gary K was the US Head of Delegation, so he might have more to add.
> 
> Steve

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