2006 INCITS Technical Committee Officers Symposium

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2006 INCITS Technical Committee Officers
Symposium

• Washington DC
• INCITS H2 Database
• Don Deutsch, Chair

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1. TC Scope

• Develop standards for the syntax and semantics of
  database languages. Computer processes and human
  users store, retrieve, update and administer
  large structured data collections using these
  languages.
• H2 has TAG authority for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 and
  contributes to projects of SC32s Working Groups
  WG3 and WG4 on Database Languages and SQL
  Multimedia and Application Packages.

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2. Significant Accomplishments

• Published Standards
• SQL/XML 2006 ISO/IEC 9075 Part 14
• Progressed to FDIS
• SQL/MM200n ISO/IEC 13249 (2nd Generation) Part
  6 Data Mining
• SQL/MM200n ISO/IEC 13249 (3rd Generation)
• Part 1 Framework
• Part 3 Spatial
• Progressed to FCD NONE

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2. Significant Accomplishments

• d. Progressed to CD
• SQL 200n ISO/IEC 9075
• Part 1 Framework
• Part 2 Foundation
• Part 3 CLI
• Part 5 PSM
• Part 9 MED
• Part 10 OLB
• Part 11 Schemata
• Part 13 JRT
• Part 14 XML
• SQL/MM 200n ISO/IEC 13249 (1st Generation)
• Part 7 History

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2. Significant Accomplishments

• Registered Working Draft NONE
• Progressed to DCOR Ballot
• ISO/IEC 9075-12003/Cor.12006
• Part 1 Framework
• Part 2 Foundation
• Part 3 CLI
• Part 5 PSM
• Part 9 MED
• Part 10 OLB
• Part 11 Schemata
• Part 13 JRT
• Part14 XML

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2. Significant Accomplishments

• H2 Decisions Re SQL Future Directions
• New SQL Standardization shall be developed first
  within INCITS/H2 and then, when appropriate,
  introduced into ISO/IEC JTC 1 (6-2-0)
• Future enhancements of existing parts of the SQL
  standard shall be developed first within
  INCITS/H2 and then, when appropriate, introduced
  into ISO/IEC JTC 1 (4-2-2)

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3. Significant Challenges

• The decade long decline in TC participation was
  slightly reversed when CA spun off Ingres Corp
  both are now voting members of H2.
• Despite opposition from the US, SC 32 WG4
  established a project for a new SQL/MM Part 7
  History and progressed a document now out for CD
  ballot.

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4. Expected Challenges

• Publishing the final revision of all 9 Parts of
  the SQL standard in late 2007 or early 2008.
• Identifying new SQL standardization initiatives
  and/or enhancements of existing parts of the SQL
  standard that are sufficiently compelling to
  engage H2 participants.

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5. Liaison Activities

• Active INCITS Subgroups
• J3 Fortran, J4 Cobol, J11 C, J16 C
• L1 GIS, L2 Codes Char Sets, L8 Metadata
• T3 ODP
• Maintenance-mode Standards referenced in H2
  produced standards
• Ada, Pascal, PL/I
• X11 M (formerly MUMPS)
• Consortia and other forums
• Open GIS Consortium (OGC)
• Unicode Technical Committee (UTC)
• W3C

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities

• By expanding SQL capabilities to include
  facilities related to first Java and now XML, H2
  is working to guarantee that SQL - the current
  lingua franca for database access - is maintained
  and enhanced so that it will continue its
  relevance in the future.
• H2 Members (including virtually all of the
  providers of RDBMS products)
• Voting Bentley, CA, DataDirect, HP, IBM,
  InterSystems, Ingres, JCC, Microsoft, NCR,
  Oracle, Sybase, Whitemarsh
• Advisory Northrop Grumman

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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities
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6. Future Trends and Related Technical Activities
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7. How Can We Help?

• Carry-over from 2005 report
• Secretariat provided infrastructure including
• File server
• Un-monitored/no human gatekeeper
• Access limited to TC members of record
• TC Letter Balloting system
• Unassisted TC membership database access
• Reports for officers
• Updates by participants
• Rapid and automatic adoption of JTC 1 SQL
  standards