ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1219

          RESOLUTIONS OF THE WG5 MEETING ON 22 TO 26 JULY 1996
                           IN DRESDEN, GERMANY

The meeting was attended by the convenor and 24 members, representing 7
member bodies, and an observer.  Resolutions D1 to D5, D7 and D11 to D15
were approved by unanimous consent, D16 and D17 by unanimous acclaim;
votes on the other resolutions are shown following each resolution. 

D1.  Revision of  Strategic Plan
That WG5 records its intent to revise its strategic plan (WG5-N1151) at
its next meeting. 

D2.  ISO Copyright
That WG5 believes that ISO copyright should not apply to its working
documents before the DIS stage. 

D3.  Appreciation of X3J3
That WG5 expresses its most sincere appreciation to X3J3 for producing
the Fortran 95 Draft International Standard and the Technical
Corrigendum 3 for Fortran 90; in particular it expresses thanks to
Richard Maine for his admirable work as editor. 

D4.  Maintenance Procedures for Fortran 95
That WG5 thanks X3J3 for agreeing to act as maintenance body for Fortran
95 and instructs its maintenance body to accept Fortran 95 defect items
directly from any WG5 member body or from the WG5 convenor. 

D5.  Handling Floating Point Exceptions
That WG5 requests the project editor for this Technical Report, which is
contained in WG5-N1195r1, to make the minor changes described in
WG5-N1213, and directs its convenor to request SC22 to initiate a PDTR
ballot as soon as possible after the revised draft is available. 

D6.  Interoperability with C
That WG5 resolves that the direction of this Technical Report is to
provide the functionality described in WG5-N1178, extended along the
lines described in WG5-N1214.
D6 was approved with one individual abstention and one country negative
vote, from the US; this was on the grounds of the schedule, not the
content. 

D7.  Enhanced Data Type Facilities
That WG5 directs its convenor to inform SC22 of the change of scope of
this technical report, as specified in San Diego resolution S11. 
Further WG5 directs him to request SC22 to initiate a PDTR ballot as
soon as possible on the technical report in WG5-N1196, augmented by the
informative paragraph on optimization in WG5-N1212. 

D8.  Part 3 of the Fortran Standard (Conditional Compilation in Fortran)
That WG5 directs its convenor to request SC22 that the work item be
divided to provide Part 3 of the Fortran standard, which describes
conditional compilation, and to request SC22 to appoint David Epstein as
Project Editor. 
D8 was approved with one individual negative vote.

D9.  Form of Conditional Compilation
That WG5 confirms that the form of Part 3 of the Fortran Standard is
generally that described in WG5-N1192 (Conditional Compilation in
Fortran), rather than that described in WG5-N1208 (fpp).
D9 was approved with two individual abstentions and one individual
negative vote. 

D10.  Interval Arithmetic
That WG5 thanks Baker Kearfott and colleagues for producing the proposal
for interval arithmetic in Fortran (WG5-N1209) in response to San Diego
resolution S13 and resolves that interval arithmetic be processed as a
requirement for Fortran 2000. 
D10 was approved with one individual abstention.

D11.  Parameterized Derived Types
That WG5 thanks Steve Morgan for developing the proposal for
parameterized derived types (WG5- N1207) in response to San Diego
resolution S13 and resolves that parameterized derived types be
processed as a requirement for Fortran 2000. 

D12.  Development Body for Fortran 2000 Revision
That WG5 thanks X3J3 for accepting its invitation to act as the primary
development body for the 2000/2001 revision of Fortran. 

D13.  Schedule and Content of Fortran 2000 Revision
That WG5 plans that the final draft document should be received by WG5
from X3J3 by January 1999 for processing as a CD.  Furthermore, the
primary requirements for Fortran 2000 are as described in document
WG5-N1215, which supersedes WG5-N1155. 

D14.  Development of Individual Fortran 2000 Proposals
That WG5 urges the primary development body to delegate and share its
work, as appropriate, with members and groups of WG5 not directly
associated with the primary development body.  Further WG5 will identify
such individuals and groups and will recommend to the primary
development body specific collaborative proposals. 

D15. Future Meetings
That WG5 proposes to hold meetings in the next two years as follows.
       February 10-14, 1997        Las Vegas, NV (joint with X3J3)
       July 21-25 or 14-18, 1997   Vienna, Austria
       February, 1998              USA (tentative)
       June or August, 1998        Trollhaettan, Sweden

D16.  Vote of Thanks for Support for Meeting
That WG5 thanks IBM Germany, NEC, Silicon Graphics and Siemens Nixdorf
Informationssysteme for generously supporting the meeting. 

D17.   Vote of Thanks
That WG5 wishes to express its appreciation to the convenor (Miles
Ellis), the secretary (Loren Meissner), the librarian (Kurt Hirchert),
the drafting committee, the hosts (DIN Fortran Committee) and
particularly the local host Wolfgang Walter and his colleagues Andrew
Pitonyak, Mrs Heinisch and Mrs Eckstein for their contribution to the
success of the meeting.