TC57 Meeting Agenda: 2026/05/12


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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Review and merge:
- Basic Concepts Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/23
- Conversions Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/24
- Normative References Language - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/28
New Proposals
- 202x removals - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/25
- cbuffer contexts - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/26
- Restricted Array Bounds - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/27
Call for Consensus:
- conforming literals to Refinement - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/15
- overload resolution to Refinement - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/19
Other discussions:
- HLSL standard headers? - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/issues/36
- Which proposals should we review for 202x and 202y? - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/issues/3
- What does the committee think of a blog/newsletter?
Call for review and merge on 26 May 2026
- Expressions Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/35
- Declarations Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/37