To: J3 08-193 From: Dan Nagle Subject: Public Comment Procedures Date: 2008 May 15 The purpose of this paper is to express J3's intentions for the handling of Public Comments received concerning the Committee Draft 08-007r2 of Fortran 2008. This document contains steps of J3's internal processing not useful to comment submitters, but useful to J3. J3's process will entail: 1) comments should be submitted electronically to f2008-ballot-comments-ext@sun.com 2) comments will be acknowledged in a timely manner by an email sent to the sender (normally, within a business day) 3) each comment will receive a unique number which will be included in the response sent 4) the Public Comment will be posted to the J3 email list, and will be posted as a J3 meeting paper (the comment document will be in a format suitable for a J3 meeting paper, see standing document 013) with the subject of "Public Comment #" where # is the number assigned in 3) 5) at the end of the Public Comment period, a summary listing of all the comments will be made into a J3 meeting paper 6) J3 will process these comments at meeting 185 (August 2008) 7) responses to all comments will be gathered into a single document 8) the response document will be sent to all comment submitters and will be a J3 meeting paper The use of a spreadsheet program may be useful for step 5) above; in that case, the format of the J3 paper should be PDF.