Ecma TC57 - HLSL

TC57 Meeting Agenda: 2026/03/17

Agenda for the:1st meeting of Ecma TC57
held in:Zoom (virtual)
on:17 Mar 2026
Chair:Chris Bieneman (Microsoft)
Vice-chair:Farzon Lotfi (Microsoft)
Attendees:
Secretary:Aki Braun (Ecma International), Samina Husain (Ecma International) [WHICHEVER PRESENT]

1 Welcome, opening and meeting logistics

  • We have a Code of Conduct.
  • TC57 is part of Ecma and operates under Ecma’s Royalty-Free patent policy. All delegates from participating companies should have already agreed to the policy. The same is true for all invited experts. Anyone who is not a delegate or invited expert we ask to please not speak or utilize the in-meeting chat features.
  • Ecma’s IPR policies are all available online

2 Review of the agenda

3 Discussions

  • TC bootstrap schedule (@llvm-beanz)
    • How often and what day/time should we meet?
    • What meeting platform should we use (Ecma Zoom/MSFT Teams/Google Meet/???)
    • We would like to record meetings just to ensure accurate minutes. Recordings will be deleted after the minutes are approved in the subsequent meeting. Is this agreed?
  • Procedure overview from the Ecma Secretariate
  • TC57 Status from the Ecma Secretariate
  • TC Process proposal (@llvm-beanz)
    • An issue has been filed to collect feedback asynchronously.
  • Current specification status (@llvm-beanz)
    • The current draft from Microsoft is available for review (PDF, HTML).
      • How would the committee like to review and integrate this work?
      • Proposal: Review and integrate by clause/sections in small chunks. An example PR has been posted integrating basic tooling, an introduction and the first two clauses.
    • Microsoft has proposals in flight, which TC57 should evaluate. Active proposals Microsofft would like to contribute are listed in this issue.

4 Conclusions & Next Meeting