This department is devoted to Intemational Lisp Efforts. All the relative news will be collected by the editor
who will attempt to make them fit together. It is always difficult to start such a department from scratch
since it can only survives if all news converge to the editor and none did so yet! Where you to hear or read
interesting news, get the reflex. Send it to the Community!
You can reach me at the following net addresses
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Pr. Christian QUEINNEC
Laboratoire d'Informatique Théorique et de Programmation
Université Pierre et Marie Curie PARIS VI
4, Place Jussieu
F-75252 PARIS Cedex France
I plan to sum up ISO progress in these columns and thereafter is a short history of the birth of Lisp
standardization. But tell me what kind of other news you expect from this department? Remember that Lisp
Pointers is to be distributed all around the World and presumably also to people far away from
ARPA/USEnet. So send all worth printing informations relative to international announcements, `
standardization points of view, meetings summary ...
ISO Efforts
Intemational efforts towards Lisp standardization are on the way in various countries. Japan, US and, in
Europe, United Kingdom, Germany and France are working onto proposals that soon will be discussed in
ISO. But let us present the environment.
Environment
ISO is the International Organization for Standardization. That huge body is compound of Technical
Committees. Among them is the ISO/TC97 on Information Processing Systems. That broad area is also
divided into SubCommittees. ISO/TC97/SC22 is devoted to Languages (in fact all kinds of Information
Processing Languages). Many countries belong to TC97. There are two sorts of members in that
democracy: P- and O- members. Roughly, P-members participate, debate and vote while Q-members only
observe.These countries are, for TC97:
P-members
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P-members
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Q-members
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P-members
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Austria
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Belgium
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Australia
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Brazil
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Canada
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China
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Bulgaria
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Chile
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Czechoslavakia
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Denmark
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Colombia
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Cuba
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Danmark
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Finland
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Greece
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India
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France
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Germany
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FR Ireland
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Israel
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Hungary
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Iran
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Korea
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Rep. of Pakistan
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Iraq
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Italy
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Portugal
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Romania
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Japan
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The Netherlands
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Saudi Arabia
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South Africa
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Norway
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Poland
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Spain
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Thailand
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Turkey
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United Kingdom
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United States
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Venezuela
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Yugoslavia
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USSR
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