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JTC 1 TAG, U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ANSI,
National Body Member of ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information Technology
NEWS RELEASE
Doc. No.: PR/97-047
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington, DC, April 1997 -- JTC 1 TAG announces the following as
U.S. Submissions
for Fast-Track processing in JTC 1:
The JTC 1 TAG is soliciting comments from the U.S. community on the appropriateness of the submission of these standards for Fast-Track processing in JTC 1. At the Ninth Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 on September 23-27, 1996, SC22 invited the United States National Body to submit the M (UMPS) Standards for Fast-track approval as the revision of ISO/IEC 11756:1992. The announcement period extends from April 11, 1997 through May 10, 1997.
Scope of ANSI/MDC X11.1-1995:
This standard describes the M programming language.
Scope of ANSI/MDC X11.2-1995:
Open MUMPS Interconnect defines a method for network access to MUMPS
databases. The protocol provides all basic operations on the sparse tree-
structured MUMPS database.
Scope of ANSI/MDC X11.6-1994:
The M Windowing API (MWAPI) extends the M programming technology
with the addition of capabilities for developing and operating graphical
user interface (GUI) applications.
For the purposes of this standard, an application is defined as a collection of one or more M routines using MWAPI capabilities and a user is a person utilizing such an application.
These standards were approved by the American National Standards Institute.
Please send all comments to: The JTC 1 TAG Administrator, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 2005, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan (Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us). A second copy should be sent to Lisa Rajchel, American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036 (Email: lrajchel@ansi.org).
To obtain a copy of this standard, please contact the Publications Department at American National Standards Institute at (212) 642- 4900.