From djblackwood@attcanada.net Sat Jul 22 01:05:11 2000 Received: from sphmraaa.compuserve.com (hs-img-rel-1.compuserve.com [149.174.177.156]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA88984 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:05:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from djblackwood@attcanada.net) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by sphmraaa.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.3) id TAA29373 for sc22wg15@dkuug.dk; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Sender: djblackwood@attcanada.net Received: from laptop (mid-tgn-noz-vty25.as.wcom.net [216.192.94.25]) by sphmraaa.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.3) with SMTP id TAA29346; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:04:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "D. J. Blackwood" To: "WG15 Mailing List" Cc: "CAC-JTC1-SC22-WG15 Mailing List" Subject: Canadian Action Item Report Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:05:57 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0014_01BFF346.B34B9AC0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01BFF346.B34B9AC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Attached is the Canadian Action Item Report delivered to today's WG15 meeting in Nashua, NH. Dave ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01BFF346.B34B9AC0 Content-Type: text/html; name="n801.htm" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="n801.htm" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 Canadian Action Item Report=20 =20 =20

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 N801

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Canadian Action Item Report

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July 21, 2000

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9907-15 (Member Bodies): Provide input to REV on = any implementation of alternative command syntax for the “dd” command.

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CLOSED. Canada has no input to offer on this action item.

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9907-16 (Canada): Recommend action to the Austin = Group for resolving Issue 3.

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CLOSED. Ten years have now passed since this issue was first = raised. At that time it was thought that a problem could arise if a non-POSIX = conforming system, using path names that included characters outside of the = portable file name character set, were to produce a pax archive, it could not be = reliably restored on a strictly POSIX-conforming system, thus reducing data = portability. That may very well still be the case. However, we have not heard of = any reported problems of this nature in ten years and therefore this issue = can now be considered closed, overcome by events.

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9907-20 (Canada): By 31Dec99, provide a written proposal to REV to resolve Issue 10.

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CLOSED. Canada has no further written proposal to provide to REV = beyond the reference to the existing Canadian national collation standard = that had previously been provided. Canada notes that the originator of this = issue is no longer a participant in WG15 and therefore recommends that this issue = be closed.

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9907-21 (Member Bodies): Review and comment = regarding Style Issues arising from draft 1 of the Austin Group revision = document.

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CLOSED. Canada supports the addition of page numbers in printed (or other "paged" representations such as PDF) versions and hypertext = links in electronic (*ML) versions of the documents. However it would be = desirable if these were maintained automatically rather than manually and it would = not be desirable to have either embedded hypertext links in printed versions = or page numbers in on-line (*ML) versions as these could confuse the reader = and impair readability. It appears from the wording of the proposed = recommendation that "page number ... cross-references ... must be correct in any = alternative presentations" which could be interpreted to include an on-line HTML presentation where they would be inappropriate.

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9907-26 (Member Bodies): Raise the issue of the C Revision which introduces incompatibilities with the POSIX standard = and locales to their SC22 and WG14 advisory bodies to request that they take the = steps necessary to get the C standard corrected to maintain compatibility = between the C and POSIX standards.

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CLOSED. Despite opposition from the Canadian POSIX Working Group, = Canada voted to approve FDIS 9989 (C Language) as follows: "Canada approves = the standard. During the review a small defect with the definition of = "strftime" function, the details of which are in the hands of the document = editor. It is our position that this is an editorial correction that we would like = to see fixed before the document is published."

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Additional comments:

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At our April, 1998 WG15 meeting "All agreed that annual = face-to-face meetings were required, with substantial email business in the = interim. There was much discussion on where such an annual meeting might be held; the = US proposed in conjunction with SC22, Denmark and UK would prefer in = conjunction with PASC (or perhaps TOG). The agreement is to alternate/rotate = between these (SC22/PASC/TOG)." Since then we've held two meetings and exchanged = 200+ emails, many of them administrative in nature. While our reduced workload is = partly responsible, we still have action items open from over two years ago! = Clearly annual meetings are inadequate, as we seem either unwilling or = incapable of conducting substantial email business in the interim. Canada believes = that we should return to more frequent meetings and suggests February 2001 in conjunction with PASC and TOG and September/October 2001 in = conjunction with SC22. While more frequent than annual, this is still less than our = previous semi-annual schedule. In the meantime we can continue to attempt to = conduct more business electronically and re-adjust our meeting schedule should = this prove more successful than it has to date.

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