INCITS/Fortran Meeting #240 Draft Minutes

InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
Secretariat: Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
700 K Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20001
www.incits.org

June 15-18, 2026, Coventry, UK

Meeting #240 is a hybrid (mixed-mode) meeting: 
in-person in at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
with virtual option via Zoom

Teleconference details are provided in J3 forum for members:
https://j3-fortran.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=179

I. Monday, June 15, 2026 -- 1:00PM - 5:00PM BST (UTC+1)
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   1. Opening Business - R. Budiardja
      1. INCITS Code of Conduct 
         http://www.incits.org/standards-information/policies
      2. INCITS Patent Policy and Antitrust 
         http://www.incits.org/standards-information/legal-info
      3. Beginning membership report - L. Menard
         1. 13 Member organizations
      4. Beginning Treasurer's report -  J. Steidel
         1. Reference: 26-169.txt
         2. No change
      5. Approval of draft agenda - R. Budiardja 
         1. Reference document:  Fortran-2026-00033-m240-draft-agenda.txt
            1. Motion Lionel/LeAir
            2. Unanimous consent
      6. Approval of Meeting 239 minutes - R. Budiardja
         1. Reference document:  Fortran-2026-00032-m239-minutes.txt
            1. Motion Menard/Richardson
            2. Unanimous consent
   
   2. National Items
      1. Liaison reports
         1. INCITS report (if any) - R. Budiardja
            1. One response required; see below.
         2. MPI Liaison report (if any) - TBD
            None
         3. OpenMP Liaison report (if any) - B. Long
            None
         4. flang Liaison report (if any) - M. LeAir
            1. Reference 26-175
         5. OpenACC Liaison report (if any) - TBD
            None            
         6. fortran-lang/LFortran (if any) - O. Certik
            1. LFortran moved from Alpha to Beta, can offload DO CONCURRENT
   
   3. Other Business - R. Budiardja
      1. Comments from members
      2. Tutorials (if needed)
   
   4. Proposed US responses for the Systematic Review of ISO/IEC 1539-2:2000
      (Fortran Part 2: Varying length character strings)
      Reference document: Fortran-2026-00034-m240-26-138 or J3/26-138.pdf
      Company                       Support
      ------------------------------------------
       AMD                             Y
       ARM                             absent
       Dancing Bear Software           Y
       HPE                             Y
       IBM                             absent
       Intel                           Y
       Lawrence Berkeley               Y
         National Lab
       Lawrence Livermore              absent
         National Lab
       Lionel                          Y
       NASA                            Y
       NVidia                          Y
       Oak Ridge National Lab          Y

       with the result 10 - Y   0 - No  0 - Abstain 3 - No response (absent)

   5. Subgroup organization and plenary
     Generics - Tom Clune, Brad Richardson, Mark LeAir, Ted Johnson
      HPC - Damian Rouson, Dan Bonachea, Patrick Fasano, Reuben Budiardja,
            Soren Rasmussen
      JOR - Lorri Menard, Jon Steidel, Raghu Maddhipatla, Steve Lionel,
            Antigoni Georgiadou, and Dan Bonachea (when available)
      Data - Malcolm Cohen
      Edit - Malcolm Cohen
     
/Generic 
**Motion 26-153: "Agreed Generic UTI013" [Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended UC

**Motion 26-143: "Resolution of UTI014" [Generics](Clune/Cohen)
       UC

**Motion 26-154: "Agreed Generic UTI017" [Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended UC

**Motion 26-155 "Resolution of UTI026, UTI027" [Generics](Clune/Menard)
      As amended UC

**Motion 26-145 "Edits for UTI019" [Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended UC

**Motion 26-148 "Edits for UTI019" [Generics](Clune/Cohen)
       UC

/Edit
**Motion 26-135: "Edit for namelist input of logical values" 
                 [Lionel](Cohen/Clune)
      UC
    
**Motion 26-136: "Edit for description of r*c in list-directed input" 
                 [Lionel](Cohen/LeAir)
     UC

**Motion 26-160: "Edit for Generalized Editing with Enum and Enumeration types"
                 [Menard](Cohen/Steidel)
      As amended UC

**Motion 26-174: "Corrections to specification inquiries" 
                 [Bonachea](Cohen/Bonachea)
      UC

/HPC
**Motion 26-172:"Responses to UTIs for interoperability with C (003, 004, 005)"
                [HPC](Fasano/Bonachea)
      UC

**Motion 26-173 "Mark C_*_COMPLEX as obsolescent" [HPC](Fasano/Bonachea)
      As amended  UC

**Motion 26-167 "Correction to LOCK_TYPE C1714" [Bonachea](Bonachea/Lionel)
      UC

--Discussion 26-159 "Edits to correct prefix reductions (US20)" [Bonachea,Cook]

Meeting recessed 5:00PM BST

II. Tuesday, June 16, 2026 -- 9:00AM - 5:00PM BST (UTC+1)
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   1. Plenary - subgroup heads
/Generics
**Motion 26-158 "Syntax correction for template deferred args"
                 [Generics](Clune/Lionel)
      UC
**Motion 26-166 "Response to UTI006" [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      UC
**Motion 26-165 "Response to UTI007" [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Bonachea)
      As amended UC
**Motion 26-139 "Response to UTI008" [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      UC
**Motion 26-140 "Resolution of UTI010" [Clune,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended
**Motion 26-141r1 "Response to UTI 011" [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      UC
**Motion 26-149 " Response to UTI023 and UTI024" [Clune,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      UC
**Motion 26-146 "Edits for UTI020" [Clune,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended  UC

/HPC
**Motion 26-159r1 "Edits to correct prefix reductions (US20)" 
                  [Bonachea,Cook](Bonachea/Menard)
      As amended UC

/JoR
**Motion 26-132 "UTI34 PROCEDURE_NAME in interface body" 
                 [Lionel](Menard/Bonachea)
      UC
**Motion 26-133 "US-09 - Yet another edit for Allow I/O of Enumerator Names"
                [Lionel](Menard/Clune)
      UC

**Motion 26-134R1 "Amend US03 note regarding integer model" 
                   [Lionel](Menard/Steidel)
      UC

**Motion 26-177 "Agreed UTI 032 (COMPOUND)" [Menard](Menard/LeAir)
      UC

**Motion 26-178R1 "Edits for UTI 033 (complex types to new IEEE fns)" 
                  [Menard](Menard/Richardson)
      UC


   2. Tutorials (if needed)
   3. Open Discussion
   4. Subgroup Meetings
   5. Break for lunch   (12:00PM)
   6. Afternoon plenary (3:00PM)

/Generics
**Motion 26-147r1 "Edits for UTI021" [Clune](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended UC

**Motion 26-152r1,"Response to UTI 030" [Richardson](Clune/Menard)
      UC

**Motion 26-156, "Fixes for 'templated procedure'" [Clune](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended, UC

**Motion 26-161, "Extend syntax for procedure reference" 
                  [Richardson](Clune/LeAir)
      UC

**Motion 26-142 "Response to UTI 012" [Richardson](Clune/Cohen)
      UC

--Withdrawn 26-144r1 "Response to UTIs 018, 015 and 016" [Richardson]
      To be reworked

--Withdrawn 26-151r1 "Response to UTIs 028 and 029" [Richardson]
      To be reworked

   6. Subgroup Meetings
   7. Subgroup Reports 

Meeting recessed 5:00PM BST
   
III. Wednesday, June 17, 2026 -- 9:00AM - 5:00PM BST (UTC+1)
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   1. Plenary - subgroup heads

/Generic
**Motion 26-144r1"Response to UTIs 018, 015 and 016" [Richardson](Clune/Lionel)
      As amended, UC

/HPC
**Motion 26-170r1 "Edits for UTI 001: TEAM restrictions for collectives" 
                   [HPC](Rouson/Richardson)
      UC

**Motion 26-171 "Edits for UTI 002: collective subroutine sequencing" 
                 [Bonachea](Bonachea/Clune)
      As amended UC

/Generic
**Motion 26-163r1 "Disallow recursive templated procedures" 
                   [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Lionel)
      UC
**Motion 26-157r1 "Edits for Table 5.1 and DEFAULT KIND" 
                  [Clune,Generics](Clune/Cohen) 
      UC
--Withdrawn 26-164 "Corrections to Table 5.1 Statement Order" 
                   [Clune,Generics](Clune/Lionel)

--Withdrawn 26-162 "deferred type subclause" [Clune,Generics](Clune/Haveraaen)

/HPC
**Motion 26-179 "Adjust examples to SUM_PREFIX_{EX,IN}CLUSIVE" 
                 [Bonachea](Rouson/Cohen)
      UC

   2. Tutorials (if needed)
   3. Open Discussion
   4. Subgroup Meetings
   5. Break for lunch   (12:00PM)
   6. Subgroup Meetings
   7. Afternoon plenary (4:00PM)
/JOR
--Discussion 26-176 "Some US19 new intrinsics are not useful enough"

/Edit
**Motion 26-180 "Subclause heading level adjustment" [Cohen](Cohen/Clune) 
      UC
**Motion 26-181 "Intrinsic procedure/module procedure argument intents" 
                 [Cohen](Cohen/Bonachea)
      UC
**Motion 26-182 "Mistakes in generic subprogram examples" 
                 [Cohen](Cohen/Iwashita)
      UC

   8. Subgroup Reports 

Recessed at 5:00PM

    
IV. Thursday, June 18, 2026 -- 9:00AM - 5:00PM BST (UTC+1)
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   1. Plenary - subgroup heads 
/JOR
**Motion 26-184 "Edits for UTI 031 (PROCEDURE_NAME with TEMPLATE and GENERIC)"
                 [Menard,Bonachea,JoR,Generics](Menard/Bonachea)
      As amended, UC

/Edit
**Motion 26-183 "Invalid branching" [Cohen](Cohen/Clune)
      As amended, UC

/GENERICS
**Motion 26-144r2 "Response to UTIs 018, 015 and 016" 
                   [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      As amended, UC

**Motion 26-150r2 "Response to UTI025" [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Richardson)
      As amended, UC

**Motion 26-151r2 "Response to UTIs 028 and 029" 
                  [Richardson,Generics](Clune/Cohen)
      UC
 

   2. Break for lunch (12:00PM)
   3. Afternoon plenary (2:00PM)
/Edit
**Motion 26-176r2 "Edits to remove some of the US19 intrinsic functions" 
                   [Cohen,Menard](Cohen/Richardson)
      UC
**Motion 26-186 "Template vs Templated typo" [Clune](Cohen/Clune)
      UC
**Motion 26-187r1 "US19, UTI033 Some IEEE functions moved to Annex C" 
                   [Lionel](Cohen/Bonachea)
      As amended, UC

/Generics
**Motion 26-188 "Resolution of UTI009" [Clune](Clune/Cohen)
      UC

/Asynchrony
**Motion 26-189 "Response to 26-168" [Rasmussen](Rasmussen/Bonachea)
      UC

   4. Closing Business 
      1. Future meetings - R. Budiardja
         1. m241 - October 2026 
            1. Virtual October 20, 22, 26, 28 6-9PM Eastern US time
            2. Focused on resolving comments on CD
         2. m242 - February 2027
         3. WG5 2027 meeting
            1. Norway
            2. Date/time TBD
         4. m243 - Date/time TBD
            
      2. Ending Treasurer's report -  J. Steidel
         1. Reference: 26-169.txt
      3. Closing membership report - L. Menard
         1. Attending were 10 INCITS/Fortran member organizations
         2. Attending were 22 people from INCITS/Fortran member organizations
         3. No members in jeopardy
         

   5. Comments from Members
   6. Meeting Closed 4:00
  

