About

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".

Quick links

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 *

27
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
1899 L St NW, 11th Floor
Washington 20036 DC
United States

Tel: +1 212 642 49 00 / +1.202.293.8020
Fax: +1 212 398 00 23 / +1.202.293.9287
Web:

  2. Taking part
  3. Who develops standards
  4. Technical Committees
  5. ISO/IEC JTC 1
  6. SC 22