X3J3/97-133 Page 1 of 1 Date: 12 Febuary 1997 To: X3J3/WG5 From: John Reid Subject: Schedule for Fortran 2000 When Fortran 90 was finally comleted, WG5 spend considerable time forming a Strategic Plan, the latest version of which is Standing Document 4 or N1151. WG5 was determined that never again would it allow a new standard to be delayed indefinitely. The plan therefore includes a schedule and the intention was that this be kept to, even at the expense of delaying some features to a further revision. The dates are shown in the table below. I also show the dates that X3J3 is using for planning purposes, see X3J3/97-010. The new rules over DIS ballots force us to revise this. I propose that we plan still to have two rounds of CD balloting. This allows us to gain two months, enough time to squeeze another X3J3 meeting into the X3J3 schedule. Stage Process Dates WG5 X3J3 Revised 1 Final definition of requirements 96-07 97-02 97-02 2 Completion of separate edits 97-11 98-02 First working draft available 98-07 99-01 99-03 WG5 approval of draft CD 99-07 99-09 3 First CD submitted for registation and approval 99-09 99-11 First CD ballot initiated 99-10 99-12 First CD ballot comments available 00-02 00-04 3 Second CD submitted for registation and approval 00-09 00-11 Second CD ballot initiated 00-10 00-12 Second CD ballot comments available 01-02 01-04 WG5 approval of draft DIS 01-04 01-06 4 DIS registered 01-05 01-07 DIS ballot initiate 01-05 01-07 DIS ballot comments available 01-09 01-09 5 Corrected DIS sent to ITTF 01-10 01-10 Standard published 01-11 01-11