Accredited Standards Committee* X3, Information Technology

NEWS RELEASE

Doc. No.:       PR/96-107
Reply to:       Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us

  X3 Announces the Public Review Comment Period for ISO/IEC (2nd) CD 14882,
   Information Technology - Programming Languages, their environments and
            system software interfaces - Programming Language C++

Washington D.C., December 1996 - Accredited Standards Committee X3,
Information Technology is announcing the public comment period for ISO/IEC
(2nd) CD 14882. Although the formal public review extends from January 17,
1997 to March 18, 1997, the U.S. TAG (X3J16) will accept comments
immediately.

This International Standard specifies requirements for implementations of
the C++ programming language. The first such requirement is that they
implement the language, and so this International Standard also defines C++.
Other requirement and relaxations of the first requirement appear at various
places within the Standard.

Note: This draft international standard is being processed simultaneously as
an American National Standard and an International Standard.

Public Review Comment Instructions:

To facilitate speedy consideration of comments, please submit them via email
to (ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us). In addition, all public review comments must
include name, company name, address, telephone number, and email address if
applicable.

The public review period closes on March 18, 1997. However, in order for
comments to affect the position of the U.S. TAG, they must be received prior
to February 28, 1997. Therefore, all commentors are urged to submit comments
as early in the public review period as possible. Public review comments
received after March 19, 1997 will be addressed and considered for future
balloting and/or revision.

[Note to Commentors]: Due to their meeting schedule and the expected volume
of comments for ISO/IEC CD 14882, the U.S. TAG (X3J16) does not plan to be
able to issue final responses to commentors until August 1997.

Submit all comments to: X3 Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250
EyeStreet, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email:
ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us.
Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
10036 (wluk@ansi.org)

A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is
also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the X3
Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email:
x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202) 638-4922.

The document (ISO/IEC CD 14882) is available for $50.00 (plus shipping,
handling, & tax) from:
American National Standards Institute, 11 W. 42nd St., New York, NY 10036,
212-642-4900.

The document is also available for $60.00 from:
Global Engineering Documents, Inc., 15 Inverness Way East,
Englewood, CO 80112-5704, 1-800-854-7179 or 303-792-2181.
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