ISAC: Pep talk and proposed agenda for ISAC meeting May 25, 2006

As I'm sure you all know, we are scheduled for an ISAC meeting
next Thursday:

Next Meeting Thursday May 25, 2006, 7 pm Pacific Daylight Time
             (Friday May 26, 2006, 2 am GMT)

We have seven open issues:

2038    Analyzed        Ajay            Minor semantic errors
2082    Analyzed        Chuck           Elaboration of unconstrained 
interface objects
2085    Analyzed        Chuck           What happens when a parameter of 
mode out is not assigned in a procedure?
2092    Analyzed        Chuck           Type conversions don't allow for 
null arrays
2093    Analyzed        Chuck           Static type conversions and 
qualified expressions
2094    Analyzed        Peter           Attribute specifications of 
overloaded subprograms is limited
2095    Analyzed        Lance           What is the entity class of an 
enumeration literal?

I believe that Ajay is revising IR 2038. All other IRs are ready for review.

I spoke with Peter about LRM status, and the bottom line is that we have 
very little time before the
Accellera LRM is frozen, so basically what we approve at Thursday's 
meeting (except for
very small changes with immediate revisions) is what will go the the 
Accellera board.

So do your very best to read the analyses ahead of time, raise issues 
before the meeting if possible,
and we'll try to get through all of these at Thursday's meeting.

We are not going to bypass the ISAC/VASG approval mechanism, but we 
might very well
anticipate approval and prepare the LRM under the assumption that these 
issues will be approved.
We could back out changes if necessary.

Also, the ISAC will continue responding to issues as they are submitted. 
Its just that
right now an important window is about to close.

Chuck ("The cheerleader") Swart