12-T13r2 Draft Minutes of the PL22.3 US TAG meeting {198th meeting since founding by ANSI/CBEMA as X3J3} Thursday, June 28, 2012 IBM Toronto Lab, 8200 Warden Ave, Markham, Ontario, Canada The meeting was called to order by Dan Nagle, acting for Van Snyder, International Representative, at 4:15 PM ET. There were 4 members present from a total membership of 7. The members, the attendees, and the organizations they represent are listed in the table below as column 1. Excerpts from the RD-2 4.3.4 Quorum Quorum for INCITS and its subgroups is defined accordingly: a. For the Executive Board, quorum is a majority of the voting membership. b. For SGs there is no minimum attendance required for quorum. c. For all other INCITS Organization Entities, quorum is one-third of the voting membership with at least four voting members present. 4.4.2.2 2/3 Voting Rule The 2/3 voting rule is defined as: • approval by at least 2/3 of those voting YES or NO, and • approval by a majority of the voting membership. That threshold is not affected by the number of members present at the meeting for a meeting vote. At this meeting: • Total membership is 7 • A quorum is 4 • A simple majority of those present is 3 • The 2/3rds voting rule requires at least 4 YES votes Steve Lionel was appointed secretary for this meeting. 1. Opening business: 1a) Remarks from the chair Dan Nagle welcomed everyone to the meeting. Van Snyder sends his regrets that he could not attend this meeting. 1b) Adoption of agenda (12-T12) The motion to approve the agenda 12-T12 was made by Steve Lionel and seconded by Bill Long. The motion passed 4-0; the vote is recorded in the table below as column 2. The Final Agenda is appended to these minutes. 1c) Approval of Meeting 197 minutes (12-T11) The motion to approve the minutes 12-T11 of the US TAG of February 16, 2012, Las Vegas, NV, J3 meeting #197, was made by Robert Corbett and seconded by Bill Long. The motion passed 4-0; the vote is recorded in the table below as column 3. 1d) INCITS/OMC report Dan Nagle had no INCITS business to report. As always, Dan drew everyone's attention to: Patent Policy, http://www.incits.org/call.htm and http://www.incits.org/pat_slides.pdf Anti-trust Guidelines: http://www.incits.org/inatrust.htm Patent declaration form: http://www.incits.org/pat_slides.pdf 1e) Comments from members None were recorded. 2. Old business There was no old business. 3. Motion concerning DTS 29113 -- Further Interoperability of Fortran with C The motion: "PL22 recommends approval of JTC1 N11070, Text of DTS 29113, Information technology - Further Interoperability of Fortran with C" was made by Steve Lionel and seconded by Bill Long. The motion failed with a roll call vote of 3-1-0-3 (yes - no - absent - no . This roll call vote failed to meet the 2/3rds voting criteria, specifically it did not have a majority of the voting membership. The vote is recorded in the table below as column 4. 4. New business There was no new business. 5. Closing business. 5a) Action items There are action items from this meeting: 1. Stan Whitlock will send the minutes to this meeting 12-T13 to Debbie Spittle at INCITS before the close of business, June 29, 2012, 5pm ET. 5b) Future Meetings The next scheduled US TAG meeting is planned for October, 2012. 5c) Comments from members No final comments from members were recorded. 7. Adjournment The motion to adjourn was made by Steve Lionel and seconded by Bill Long. The motion passed 4-0; the vote is recorded in the table below as column 5. The meeting was adjourned at 4:21 PM. Table of votes taken, by attendee ================================= 1 2 3 4 5 Organization represented Representative - - - - - ------------------------ -------------- A A A A A IBM Daniel Chen Y Y Y N Y Oracle America Robert Corbett Y Y Y Y Y Intel Corporation Steve Lionel Y Y Y Y Y Cray Inc. Bill Long Y Y Y Y Y NCAR Dan Nagle A A A A A Los Alamos National Craig Rasmussen Security A A A A A Caltech/Jet Propulsion Van Snyder Laboratory 1 attendance 2 adoption of agenda 3 adoption of minutes of the previous US TAG meeting 4 approve DTS 29113 - roll call failed - lacked a majority of the voting membership 5 motion to adjourn Y yes N no A absent - no response Final Agenda for PL22.3-USTAG Meeting 198 12-T12 ======================================= 4:15-4:30 PM, Thursday 28 June 2012 1. Opening business D. Nagle Remarks from the chair D. Nagle Adoption of agenda D. Nagle Approval of Meeting 197 minutes (12-T11) D. Nagle INCITS/OMC report (if any) D. Nagle Comments from members 2. Old business (if any ) D. Nagle 3. Motion concerning DTS 29113 -- Further D. Nagle Interoperability of Fortran with C 4. New business D. Nagle 5. Closing business D. Nagle Review of action items (if any) D. Nagle Future Meetings D. Nagle Comments from members 6. Adjournment Ballot for agendum 3: Choose one of 1) PL22 recommends approval of JTC1 N11070, Text of DTS 29113, Information technology - Further Interoperability of Fortran with C 2) PL22 recommends approval with comments of JTC1 N11070, Text of DTS 29113, Information technology - Further Interoperability of Fortran with C 3) PL22 recommends disapproval of JTC1 N11070, Text of DTS 29113, Information technology - Further Interoperability of Fortran with C