During the first week of November, JTC 1 held its annual plenary meeting. I understand that the following resolution was passed at that meeting. --- Resolution 32 - Increased Publicity of JTC 1 Activities JTC 1 encourages its National Bodies and SCs to help contribute information and articles to professional journals, meetings and proceedings so that information on JTC 1 work and related activities within partner organizations is widely disseminated and understood. ... c) JTC 1 encourages its National Bodies and SCs to produce case studies on standards success stories (e.g. MPEG, SPICE, VRML) and to have these published in major widely distributed IT journals d) JTC 1 encourages its National Bodies and SCs to advance management attention to standardization issues and strategic value by contributing appropriate articles and letters to widely distributed and respected management and news magazines. --- This suggests that Team Ada members should find an open door at their national standards bodies for Ada success stories, and that articles submitted for publication may be able to gain a significant degree of official support and even endorsement. [JTC 1 is a joint technical committee of ISO and IEC, the International Organisation for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission (I think that's right). Its subcommittee SC22 develops and maintains programming language standards through working groups, of which SC22 WG9 looks after Ada. National standards bodies who are members of ISO/IEC typically participate to a greater or lesser extent in the work of JTC 1 SC22, and a variety of its working groups. Thus many national standards bodies will be expected to comply with this resolution.] -- Michael Pickett