On Nov 8, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Ian Chivers wrote:
> currently the following files can be found at the above address.
...
> 1601 Draft International Standard for Fortran 2003 (Maine)
> will the standard and the dtr on enhanced module facilities
> be removed after the formal publicatioin?
Note that the standard isn't there. N1601 is the DIS (the D being for
draft). To my knowledge, the standard doesn't yet exist and when it is
published, it won't be freely available. (I didn't say I liked that -
just that it is my understanding of the way things are).
That being said, the few proposed changes between the DIS and the
standard are *VERY* minor. In fact, they do not change a single word.
All the proposed changes are purely typographical, the biggest one
being to reformat one column of a table so that the table doesn't edge
into the margin. For internal committee use, there might be a
subsequent working draft created incorporating those changes, but I'm
waiting to see what ISO does with the standard before doing another
working draft. (We sent the proposed changes to ISO, but haven't had
any feedback).
Anyway, the committee itself uses the working drafts. I would not
expect them to be deleted from the server, though my predictions of
future bureaucratic requirements are far less than perfect.
However, if you want to increase the odds of the drafts being pulled,
I'd guess that citing one of them as "the standard" instead of as a
draft of it would be the kind of thing likely to draw attention. :-(
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