About

  • Secretariat: ANSI (United States)
    Committee Manager:
    Mr Bill Ash
  • Chairperson (until end 2026):
    Mr David Keaton
  • ISO Technical Programme Manager [TPM]:
    M Stéphane Sauvage
    ISO Editorial Manager [EM]:
    Ms Lucy Kirk
  • Creation date: 1987

Scope

JTC1/SC 22 is the international standardization subcommittee for programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces. SC 22 is oftentimes called the "portability subcommittee".

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Sustainable Development Goals

This committee contributes with 28 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goals:

3
Good Health and Well-being
4
Quality Education
9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
11
Sustainable Cities and Communities
12
Responsible Consumption and Production
112

Published ISO standards *

15

ISO standards under development *

28
Participating members
20
Observing members

* number includes updates

Reference Title Type
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 4   COBOL Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5   Fortran Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9   Ada Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14   C Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 17   Prolog Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 21   C++ Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 23   Programming Language Vulnerabilities Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 24   Linux Working group
Liaison Committees to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
IEC/ISO JTC 3 Quantum technologies ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces ISO/IEC

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 can access the documents of the committees below:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 Internet of things and digital twin ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 37 Language and terminology ISO

 

Organizations in liaison (Category A and B)
Acronym Title Category
Ecma International Ecma International A
Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation A
UNICODE The Unicode Consortium A

Organizations in liaison (Category C)

C liaisons participate at the level of a Working Group

Acronym Title Category
ACM SIGPLAN-HILT Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Ada C
Ada-Europe Ada-Europe C
MISRA MISRA C
Date Month Location TC/SC Note
8-9 September 2025 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 **
24-25 August 2026 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 **
13-14 September 2027 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 **
11-12 September 2028 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 **
20-21 August 2029 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 **

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 - Secretariat

ANSI (United States)

American National Standards Institute
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United States

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