The meeting of the European Computer Manufacturers Association’s TC-41 committee created to standardize Java is now supposed to meet in October after rescheduling from August and September. According to the Java Study Group of ISO’s SC22 language committee, ECMA is not expected to take any action at its December 1999 meeting and maybe not even at its June 2000 General Assembly meeting. However, ECMA will eventually submit its Java standard to ISO/IEC JTC1 and once that goes to ballot, subordinate groups like SC22 and JSG would not be able to hold meetings on the ballot topic. The evolution/maintenance issue [carried over from Sun’s aborted ISO-PAS submission] must still be a concern, it says.
