EIGHTEENTH PLENARY MEETING OF ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 - 
APPROVED AGENDA
Mt. Tremblant, 
Quebec, Canada
September 29-October 2, 
2005 [20050929/1002]
Version 5, 
2005-09-30
 
**The SC 22 Plenary meeting 
begins on Friday, 30 September 2005.  
On Thursday, 29 September 2005, SC 22 will conduct successive meetings of 
two ad hoc groups.
 
Beginning at 0900 Mr. 
Scott Jameson, Chairman of JTC 1, 
will discuss the changes that are happening to the JTC 1 Directives.  Please prepare for this discussion using 
the documents posted to agenda item 7.5.2 of the SC 22 meeting.  It is anticipated that this discussion 
will take on the order of 2 hours.  
The outcome from this discussion will be addressed during agenda item 
7.5.2
 
Beginning soon following the 
completion of the session on the JTC 1 Directives, Mr. Jonathan Hodgson, Convener of the SC 22 Ad Hoc on 
Future Direction, will lead an ad hoc group meeting to discuss SC 22’s future 
direction.  A guest speak, Dr. Tineke Egyedi of T.U. Delft, will 
be discussion the results of her research, some of which may have relevance to 
SC 22, and/or JTC 1.  Please prepare 
for this discussion using SC 22 documents N3892, N3893, and N3894.  The outcome of this session will be 
addressed in agenda item 7.4.4.**
 
 
1.  OPENING OF PLENARY MEETING   (9:00 hours, Friday, 30 
September)
2.  CHAIRMAN'S REMARKS
3.  ROLL CALL OF DELEGATES
4.  APPOINTMENT OF DRAFTING COMMITTEE
5.  ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA
6.  REPORT OF THE SECRETARY
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3962
6.1  SC 22 
Project Information
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3963
6.2 
Proposals for New Work Items within SC 22
 
6.2.1 Guidance to Avoiding 
Vulnerabilities in Programming Languages through Language Selection and 
Use
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3913 (NP Ballots available at meeting) DOCUMENT: N3975 
6.3 
Outstanding Actions From the Seventeenth Plenary of SC 
22
6.4  Transition 
to ISO Livelink
6.4.1  SC 22 
Transition
7.  ACTIVITY REPORTS
7.1  National 
Body Reports
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3954 (UK), N3957 N3977 
(Netherlands), N3959 (US)
7.2  External 
Liaison Reports
7.2.1  ECMA 
International  (Rex Jaeschke)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3923, N3924, N3925, N3926, N3982 
7.2.2  Free 
Standards Group (Nick Stoughton)
DOCUMENT: N3967 
7.3  Internal 
Liaison Reports
7.3.1  Liaison 
Officers from JTC 1/SC 2 (Mike Ksar)
DOCUMENT: N3975 
7.3.2  Liaison 
Officer from ISO/TC 37 (Keld Simonsen)
7.3.3  Liaison 
Officer from JTC 1 SC 32 (Frank 
Farance)
7.3.4  Liaison 
Officer from JTC 1 SC 7 (Jim 
Moore)
DOCUMENT: N3983 
7.4  Reports from 
SC 22 Subgroups
7.4.1 Ad 
Hoc on Terminology (Roger Scowen)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3952, N3953
N3976 
N3978 
N3979 
N3980 
7.4.2 SC 
22 Advisory Group for POSIX (Stephen Walli)
DOCUMENT: N3974 
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3864
7.4.3 
Internationalization Rapporteur Group [I18RG] (John Benito)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3945
7.4.4 Ad 
Hoc on Future Directions for SC 22 (Jon Hodgson)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3886, N3892, N3893, N3894
7.5 
Reports from JTC 1 Subgroups
7.5.1 JTC 
1 Vocabulary (Roger Scowen)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3910, N3927, N3928, N3929, N3930, N3931, N3932
N3971 
7.5.1.1 Presentation on terminology
 
7.5.2 JTC 1 Directives Ad 
Hoc
DOCUMENT: SC 22 N3883, N3933, N3934, N3935, N3936, N3937, N3938, N3939, 
N3942
 
7.5.3 JTC 1 Advisory Group 
on Security
DOCUMENT: SC 22 N3942
8.  WORKING GROUP BUSINESS PLANS AND 
REPORTS
(Written reports to be submitted by 
Conveners before presentation. Presentation up to 15 
minutes. Reports for this Plenary will include the Business Plan required 
by JTC 1.) 
8.1  WG 3 - APL 
(L. Dickey)
DOCUMENT: SC 22 N3964
8.2  WG 4 - COBOL 
(D. Schricker)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3961 N3961 
8.3  WG 5 - 
FORTRAN (J. Reid)
DOCUMENT: SC 22 N3921
8.4  WG 9 - 
Ada (J. Moore) 
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3946
8.5  WG 11 - 
Binding Techniques (W. Wakker)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3955
8.6  WG 14 - C 
(J. Benito)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3956
8.7  WG 16 - Lisp 
(T. Yuasa)
DOCUMENT: SC 22 N3949
8.8  WG 17 - 
Prolog (J. Hodgson) 
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3948
8.9  WG 19 - 
Formal Specification Languages (R. Scowen)  
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3951
8.10  WG 21 - C++ 
(H. Sutter)
DOCUMENT: SC 
22 N3958
9.  PROJECT EDITOR REPORTS
9.1  Basic (T. 
Kurtz)
9.2  Pascal (T. 
Hetherington)
DOCUMENT: N3970
9.3  PL/I (J. 
Klensin)  
9.4 Linux 
Standards Base (Nick Stoughton)
DOCUMENT: N3967 
N3973
9.5 POSIX 
(Nick Stoughton)
DOCUMENT: N3981
10.  AD HOC MEETINGS (held with this meeting 
of SC 22)
11.  ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
11.1  SC 22 
Business Plan
11.2  Requests 
for Input to JTC 1
11.3  JTC 1 Study 
Groups
11.3.1  Web 
Services
11.3.2  Privacy 
Technology
12.  SC 22 ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES 
12.1  Review of 
Five-Year Meeting Schedule
12.2  Standards 
for Periodic Review
 
12.2.1 
2006 Recommendations
ISO/IEC 13571:2001 Information technology – Open Terminal 
Architecture (OTA) specification – Virtual machine specification
ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995 Information technology – Programming 
languages – Prolog – Part 1: General core
ISO/IEC 8652:1995 Information technology – Programming 
languages – Ada
ISO/IEC 13817-1:1996 Information technology – Programming 
languages, their environments and system software interfaces – Vienna 
Development Method – Specification language – Part 1: Base language
ISO/IEC 13886:1996 Information technology – 
Language-Independent Procedure Calling (LIPC)
ISO/IEC 10967-2:2001 Information technology – Language 
independent arithmetic – Part 2: Elementary numerical functions
ISO/IEC 14519:2001 Information technology – POSIX Ada 
Language Interfaces – Binding for System Application Program Interface (API)
ISO 6160:1979 Programming languages – PL/1
ISO 7185:1990 Information technology – Programming 
languages – Pascal
ISO/IEC 10279:1991 Information technology – Programming 
languages – Full BASIC
ISO/IEC 10206:1991 Information technology – Programming 
languages – Extended Pascal
ISO/IEC 6522:1992 Information technology – Programming 
languages – PL/1 general purpose subset
ISO/IEC 10514-1:1996 Information technology – Programming 
languages – Part 1: Modula-2, Base Language
12.3  Review of 
Non-Progressing SC 22 Projects
12.4  Officer 
Appointments/Re-appointments
WG 4- Mr. Charles Stevens
DOCUMENT: SC 22 N3960
WG 5 – Mr. John Reid
WG 11 – Mr. Willem Wakker
WG 14 – Mr. John Benito
WG 16 – Mr. Taiichi Yuasa
WG 17 – Mr. Jonathan 
Hodgson
WG 21 – Mr. Herb Sutter
13.  OTHER BUSINESS
14.  APPROVAL OF RESOLUTIONS AND STATEMENT OF 
RESULTS
15.  ADJOURNMENT (no later than 1700 hours, 5 
PM, Sunday, 2 October)