[SCL] Re: [CL] Common Logic Standard

[John F. Sowa]

Harry,

I think that's an excellent idea:

 > As you know, this list has not been active in a while,
 > with most of the technical discussions now taking place
 > on the SCL list instead. I've therefore asked Chris Menzel
 > if I can start to re-focus the discussion on this CL list.
 > It seems appropriate, now that ISO has approved Common Logic
 > as a standards project, to have a list just for discussions
 > related to the standard.

Pat is also working on a proposed W3C standard.  I believe
that we should keep all the technical specifications of
the ISO and W3C standards identical.  The only differences
between them should be in "boilerplate" and perhaps in the
order of presentation.

 > The current status of the project is that it is an official
 > ISO project, to become ISO's standard number 24707. There is
 > not yet an actual draft, but I intend to use the results of
 > the SCL technical work as a starting point. I have developed
 > an outline for the standard, which I will post shortly.
 > I hope to get a working draft assembled (most of the parts
 > have already been written) by the end of February; this
 > "deadline" will enable the draft to be considered at the next
 > ISO meeting in May.

Since Z is already an approved ISO standard 13568, I suggest
that the outline for the ISO CL standard be similar in overall
arrangement to the Z standard.  If anyone needs a copy, I have
posted a draft version of FDIS 13568 on my web site (copy it
now if you like, since it's in a temporary directory):

    http://www.jfsowa.com/temp/ziso.pdf

And I'm very glad that you have done the work to get an
official ISO project set up with an official standard number.
Good work!

John