1. SEDRIS Editor’s Report Dick Puk ISO/IEC SC24 SEDRIS Editor WG8 Meeting, October 1, 1999 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC24 N5

2. Overview Organization of SEDRIS Related Standards Status Changes since last posted Comments Received Work for This Meeting

3. Organization of SEDRIS Related Standards Four Standards: –SEDRIS Part 1—Functional specification Part 2—Abstract transmittal format Part 3—Transmittal format binary encoding Part 4..n—Transmittal format other encodings –SEDRIS bindings Part 4—SEDRIS API binding to C –SDCS Part 1—Abstract data coding specification Part 2—Data coding binding to C Parts 3..n—Data coding binding to other languages –SRM

4. Status SEDRIS Part 1 first draft posted and under review SDCS Part 1 first draft posted and ready for review SEDRIS C binding first draft in preparation expected posting mid-October SEDRIS Parts 2 and 3 and SDCS Part 2 to be done next

5. Changes since last posted Selection item data types Minor editorial corrections Minor typos

6. Comments received Paul Berner has generated comments Gary Wentz has generated editorial comments Early comments on Introduction already integrated

7. Work for this meeting Process all comments –Review the comments –Prepare responses to the comments which serve as instructions to the editor Initiate review of remainder of SEDRIS Part 1 Initiate review of SDCS Part 1 Identify and assign work items

8. Issues Style including use of International English Use of selection items and relationship to registration Approach to binding SEDRIS –Consistency –Stores Approach to binding SDCS Tracking SEDRIS changes SEDRIS implementation tracking ISO document changes