I’ve just returned last night from a week in Copenhagen, where I attended the SC34 WG4/WG5 meetings that were hosted by Danish Standards. As usual, it was several days of non-stop document format discussions, in the meetings as well as over breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Carlsbergs. A typical comment from one of the delegates Wednesday afternoon: “let’s take a break from sitting down and continue this debate standing up for a while.” Other attendees have posted some thoughts about the meetings already, and I expect we’ll see more discussion of the details on participants’ blogs going forward. See Alex Brown and Jesper Lund Stocholm for information about some of the topics we discussed, including boolean values , ISO 8601 dates , and other aspects of IS29500 maintenance. WG4 (IS29500 Maintenance) The main focus of WG’s work, as always, was processing of DRs (defect reports) that have been submitted by member bodies. As of the end of the meeting, we had closed 205 of the 284 defect reports that have been submitted to date; watch the WG4 statistics page for an update in the next few days that will reflect the latest status. The biggest submitter of DRs to date has been the UK, although I see that Japan plans to take the lead soon, according to a comment from WG4 convenor Murata Makoto on Alex Brown’s Flickr stream. In addition to discussing proposed solutions and closing DRs, we discussed at some length two topics Alex raised in presentations to the group: the intent of IS29500’s division into Transitional and Strict at the BRM last year (including how they’re related and the long-term maintenance implied by this structure), and various approaches to conformance testing for IS29500 (and also IS26300). We also reviewed the planned schedule for COR1 (the first set of technical corrigenda for IS29500) and AM1 (the first set of amendments). Project editor Rex Jaeschke is already working on these documents, and WG4 hopes to be ready to approve them on the July 23 conference call, or on a July 30 call if needed. After that, they’ll proceed to SC34 and JTC1 for balloting. One other interesting topic we discussed was how we can implement a public email archive for all WG4 correspondence.
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WG4/WG5 Meetings