Annual Report, ACM Technical Standards Committee
prepared by Jim Moore, Chairman

Accomplishments:

- - John Klensin represents ACM in the ANSI Information System Standards Board.
He is Vice-Chair of the Board.
- - We redesigned our Web page to provide information about the external
(standards-related) and internal (SIGs and Pubs) liaisons that TSC members
provide.
- - We published 9 short articles on a variety of standards-related subjects on
our Web page.
- - We discussed a "statement of principles" regarding standardization. Although
this discussion did not result in a product, it did shape opinions and
attitudes of individual members as they dealt with recent issues including the
applications of Sun Microsystems and Object Management Group (OMG) to be
recognized by ISO/IEC JTC1 as submitters of "publicly available specifications"
(PAS).
- - We provided advice to SIGGraph and ACM staff regarding the problems potential
in conducting standardization activities in close association with SIGGraph.
- - We are investigating the virtual computing standards education program to
determine its fit with ACM interests.

Liaisons:  As a resource to ACM, our membership provides liaison to the
following standards-related organizations:

- - ANSI ISSB
- - IEEE CS SESC
- - IEEE Standards Board
- - IEEE P1178
- - IEEE P1484
- - ISO/IEC JTC1
- - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC24
- - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22
- - ISO/IEC JTC1 Java Study Group
- - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7
- - OMG
- - CEN Medical Informatics

Publications: An (incomplete) list of recent publications by our members
includes:

- - Steve Carson, Information Technology: The Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(VRML) ISO Bulletin, Volume 28, Number 9, September 1997

- - Steve Carson, Standards Pipeline, Computer Graphics, Volume 30, Number 3,
August 1996

- - Steve Carson, Standards Pipeline: VRML 97 and BIIF, Computer Graphics, Volume
30, Number 4, November 1996

- - Steve Carson, Standards Pipeline: The OpenGL Specification, Computer
Graphics, Volume 31, Number 2, May 1997

- - Steve Carson, Standards Pipeline: PNG, VRML 97, BIIF and Imaging Standards,
Computer Graphics, Volume 31, Number 3, August 1997

- - Steve Carson (with Rikk Carey and Richard F. Puk), The Development of the
VRML 97 International Standard (submitted)

- - Jabir [a collective name for a group including James Moore], A Search for
Fundamental Principles of Software Engineering, Computer Standards and
Interfaces (forthcoming)

- - James Moore, Software Engineering Standards: A User's Road Map, IEEE Computer
Society Press, 1997

- - James Moore (with Perry DeWeese and Dennis Rilling), US Software Life Cycle
Process Standards, Crosstalk, 10:7, July 1997

- - Roy Rada "Educational Objects Economies and Fitting into the Workflow" in
Educational Object Economies,
http://trp.research.apple.com/EdEconomy/QOTW/7_21.html, August 12, 1997.

- - Roy Rada "Request for a Virtual IT College" Communications of the ACM, 39, 10
pp 29-30, October 1996.

- - Roy Rada and James Moore, Organizational Badge Collecting, Communications of
the ACM, 39:8, August 1996

- - Roy Rada and James Moore, Standardizing Reuse, Communications of the ACM,
40:3, March 1997

- - Roy Rada and James Schoening "New Standards for Educational Technology
Relevant to Multiple ACM SIGs" article broadcast to SIG Leaders and others on
March 3, 1997 and available at
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~rada/research/papers/cacm/sigs.htm.

Presentations:

- - Steve Carson, ISO and ANSI Standardization (presentation), Electronic Imagery
Archives Planning Workshop, Falls Church, VA, March 4-6, 1997

- - Steve Carson, JTC 1/SC 24 Approach to Collaboration (presentation), JTC 1 GII
Standards Operational Roundtable, Reston, VA, 23-24 July 1997

- - James W. Moore, US and International Standards for Software Product
Evaluation and Measurement, International Function Point Users Group, September
1997