I have already sent this information to comp.lang.cobol and to the SHARE LNGC project, but I thought there MIGHT be some within IBM-MAIN who would also be interested (and interested enough to actually do something about this).
"William M. Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I just received the following note. Please act on it (or ignore it) as you see > best, > > *** > To: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 4, Programming language COBOL > INCITS/J4, Technical Committee COBOL > > COBOL working draft 1.10, in zipped PDF format, is available for download from > the WG4 website: http://www.cobolstandard.info/wg4/document.html (WD 1.10). I > will send this document to SC22 for concurrent Committee Draft (CD) registration > and CD ballot. > > I decided not to hold up the concurrent CD registration and CD ballot for > resolution of certain details; you can see these in Annex G, Open Issues. Please > send comments on these issues, along with any other comments. > > Anyone can send comments directly to INCITS/J4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for > consideration in development of the U.S. position on the CD ballot. You should > also send your comments to your national body for development of your country's > position. > > This is the first committee draft, which is usually considered to be a rough > draft. Comments on the overall feature content as well as comments on > specification details will be helpful. The next planned ballot is a Final CD > ballot, for which the document should be in tip-top shape (though changes can > still be made). Your input will help us make it that way. > > I'll notify you when I know the ballot closing date. Your national body will > have an earlier closing date. > > The ballot starting date will be a bit later than shown in the draft revision > schedule at http://www.cobolstandard.info/j4/files/07-0183.doc , but the overall > schedule should not change drastically because the ballot period will be 3 > months rather than the projected 4 months. > > Any comments to INCITS/J4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by the March 10-14, > 2008, J4 meeting in Ontario, CA, will be greatly appreciated. > > **** > > > -- > Bill Klein > wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html