Subcommittee 12 - Environment

Chair: Jon Diamond (October 1991 - October 1993) ???

Lawrence A. Ruh (February 1994 - current)

Task groups

1: Representation of Text (Dissolved: October 1993)
2: Internationalization
3: Inter-Job Communication (Dissolved: 4 February 1992)
4: ssvn Monitoring (Established: October 1991, Dissolved: February 1992)
5: Sequential Character Streams (Dissolved: June 1995)
6: Magtape handling (Dissolved: 20 October 1992, merged with Task group 5: Sequential Character Streams)
7: Security
8: System Facility Interface (Dissolved: September 1996)
9: General Device Issues
10: Model
11: ssvn Portability and Conformance (Dissolved: September 1996)
12: Windowing API (remaining task group from Subcommittee 11)
13: (never created)
14: Networking (remaining task group from Subcommittee 14)

Bylaws

1. Name

This Subcommittee shall be called MDC Subcommittee 12: Environment, hereafter referred to as the Subcommittee.

2. Introduction

These bylaws are for the purpose of extending and clarifying the Constitution of the MUMPS Development Committee; with no intent of conflicting with or circumventing it. Therefore, the bylaws are to be interpreted in the spirit of the Constitution, and, in the event of apparent conflict, the bylaws are submissive to the Constitution.

3. Scope of Work

[X11/91-34 was accepted unanimously on 21 October 1991 and reaffirmed on 25 October 1993.]

1. To provide a Name Registration Service for those elements of the MUMPS Language Specification and Bindings to it as directed by the MDC or requested by other Subcommittees of the MDC. This includes the maintenance and monitoring of structural definitions for structured system variables, and library elements.

   A list of the allocation of names is to be made available on request to any person by the MDC Secretariat. The initial set of elements to be registered is as documented in X11/SC10/91-3, as amended by the June 1991 meeting of MDC/SC10.

2. To provide and maintain a Reference Model for MUMPS, suitable for publication as a technical guide.

3. To provide a center of expertise, an architectural framework and specifications for addressing the areas of System Facility Interfaces, Internationalization and Security within MUMPS systems. Other areas may be added as directed by the MDC.

   In the area of System Facility Interfaces, the Subcommittee is to include consideration of the specifications produced by the IEEE POSIX committee.

4. To control the specification of all issues related to devices which are either, not specific to the type of the device, or whose usage is not within the Scope of Work of another Subcommittee.

5. To produce technical reports as appropriate to the areas of work of the Subcommittee for publication by the MDC.

6. To recommend changes to the MUMPS Language Specification, Bindings to it, or other documents produced by the MDC as a result of the work of the Subcommittee.

1. Membership in Subcommittee 12 is by institution.

2. Those institutions represented at the October 1991 meeting will be considered to be members of the Subcommittee.

3. Institutions may apply for membership by petitioning the Subcommittee at the second consecutive meeting attended.

4. Membership will be lost if the institution is not represented for two consecutive meetings or does not vote on two consecutive mail ballots.

1. Voting privileges are contingent upon membership.

[ Accepted without dissent on 25 October 1993. ]

The following subjects will be prepared for the next standards submission:

Feb 1994: Portable mnemonicspaces

Post 1994: General Character Issues

Internationalization

Currency issues

June 1995: Sequential character streams

Magtape handling

June 1995: Null devices

Feb 1995: NEW device ssvns

? 1995: Conformance information and user access

?? POSIX MUMPS API

This list of proposals is not to be misinterpreted as being the entire schedule of work of Subcommittee 12. New proposals may be introduced at any time.

Scope of work: X11/SC12/TG0/92-2

Time-table: X11/SC12/93-42, 25 October 1993

post 1994: General Character issues
post 1994: Internationalization
post 1994: Currency issues
June 1995: Sequential character streams
June 1995: Magtape handling
Feb 1994: Portable Mnemonicspaces
June 1995: Null device
Feb 1995: NEW device svns
1995: Conformance information and user access
new: POSIX MUMPS API