Notes for meeting at Sun in 17 Network Circle in Menlo Park at
	1:00 on Tuesday 11/18/04.  David Hough hosted us in the ???
	Beach Room in building 17.  Alex Liu, Mike Cowlishaw, Jim
	Thomas, Joe Darcy, Ivan Goddard & Dan Zuras attended.  Eric
	Schwartz, Leonard Tsai, & Jeff Kidder were on the phone.

	Annex D went into the standard with little discussion.

	Jim raised the issue of splitting the standard into the 1985
	text + quad, min/max, & FMA & an Annex D for decimal.  Jim wants
	to raise this as an agenda item in the December meeting.  Find
	out with IEEE if we can have two votes.

	The letter is to be shipped.

	We finished the agenda & went on to BigDecimal, the topic that
	got us stuck yesterday.  (Joe is in the room now.)

	Ivan had a new topic after the 3:00 break.  It was general
	background information about the Open Multi-Processing (OMP)
	standard for supporting MP annotations for Fortran.  He thinks
	we should distinguish the highest precision available from the
	rest & relax the rules along these line: it should not support:
	modes, traps, gradual underflow, operations need not correctly
	round & reassociation should be permitted.  Most of it exists
	today & is outside the standard.  We are trying to bring some
	of it into the standard.  Jeff characterized the problem as
	licensing expressions to be evaluated in another way so long
	as it is more precise than the operands.  We spent a good deal
	of time discussing various expressions & problems with their
	evaluation.

	Jeff wanted to look Annex L.  Ivan is here so this is a good
	thing.  Dave mentioned his "no action at a distance" notion.

	We ended about 5:00.