TC57 Meeting Agenda: 2026/04/28
| Agenda for the: | 4th meeting of Ecma TC57 |
| held in: | Zoom (virtual) |
| on: | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Chair: | Chris Bieneman (Microsoft) |
| Vice-chair: | Farzon Lotfi (Microsoft) |
| Secretary: | Aki Braun (Ecma International), Samina Husain (Ecma International) |
1 Welcome, opening and meeting logistics
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- 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.
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2 Approval of the minutes of the [virtual] meeting of 14 04 2026
3 Review of the agenda
4 Editorial Board Report
- Tooling update:
- Website merged, pre-merge build added
- GitHub pages publishing configured: https://hlsl-tc57.github.io/tc57/
- Small website fixes - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/20
- GitHub team tc57-editors is created
- Added a CODEOWNERS file - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/22
- Automatically request review from tc57-editors on spec changes
- Automatically request review from tc57-chairs for meetings agenda/minutes changes.
5 Review New Proposals
6 Discussions
- Confirm editor volunteers
- Conformance Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/11
- Ongoing discussion in the PR around implementation extensions to namespaces and types.
- Review and merge:
- Lexical Conventions Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/16
- New proposal - conforming literals - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/15
- New proposal - overload resolution - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/19
- Call for Consensus:
- Advance proposal 0001 to Refinement
- Review for 2026-05-12:
- Basic Concepts Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/23
- Conversions Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/24
- Review for merge 2026-05-12:
- New Proposal - HLSL 202x removals - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/25
- New Proposal -
cbuffercontexts - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/26 - New Proposal - Restricted Unbound Arrays - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/27