SC22/WG20 N1093

From: owner-sc22wg20@dkuug.dk on behalf of Kenneth Whistler
[kenw@sybase.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:28 PM
To: sc22wg20@dkuug.dk
Cc: kenw@sybase.com
Subject: (SC22WG20.4763) WG20 meeting

WG20 participants.

Keld Simonsen invited WG20 to hold a meeting at Danish
Standards, next week, 2004-06-07/09. I appreciate this
invitation, but it is unclear to me that there is sufficient
business to date to warrant a formal, 3-day, face-to-face meeting
in Copenhagen.

The only official project business that WG20 has open at
the moment is resolution of the ballot comments to FCD3 15897,
so that we can progress that document to publication.

As yet, we do not have the final disposition of comments
(WG20 N1082) or the final text for FDIS 15897 (WG20 N1083)
in hand, even though those were supposed to be distributed
for review some months ago. Because of this, I don't
see how we can successfully manage to deal with those
documents next week, even if the drafts did manage to
turn up at the meeting itself. Until we progress through
the editorial review steps specified by R2003-10-04 from
the last meeting, I don't see how we can justify a
face-to-face meeting to deal with documents that don't
exist yet.

I see no other items of business for WG20 at the moment
that cannot be handled simply by an email resolution or
a short conference call, if necessary. And since there
is no substantial agenda item until we have the final
text for FDIS 15897 in hand, even that would seem
premature to me.

Furthermore, based on the situation currently, I certainly
cannot justify a 3-day trip to Copenhagen to my own
management.

Accordingly, I would like to thank Danish Standards for
offering to host a meeting next week, but cannot see
sufficient reason to proceed with it right now.
When we have the final documents in hand for FDIS 15897
we can discuss whether a face-to-face meeting or a conference
call meeting would be needed to finish off that business.

Regards,

--Ken Whistler