The Austin Common Standards Revision Group

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Latest News About the Group

March 2008: Read the latest Roadmap to the revision

March 2008: Minutes of the most recent face to face meeting are now available.

January 11 2008: Draft 4 of the Revision is now available. Login to access the draft.

Next Meeting

See the events diary for the next meeting.

Click on the button to subscribe, or view here. [ ICAL | XML ]

Next Teleconference Agenda

The next teleconference is scheduled to discuss inbound aardvark including considerations for new interpretations. (See the diary for the regular bridge number and timeslot)

Press Releases

NetBSD OPERATING SYSTEM TO ADD ELEMENTS OF THE POSIX® STANDARD

Read the ISO Approval press release.

The IEEE and The Open Group Launch POSIX® Certification Program.

(More press releases...).

Mail Archives

Browse : [All lists | Main list | Main list by Thread ]

Obtaining a Copy of the Standard

The html version of the standard ( this is the 2004 edition including Technical Corrigendum 1 and Technical Corrigendum 2) is freely available on the web (for reading or downloading), more information and the registration page are here.

The following Summaries of changes are available: [ Technical Corrigendum 1 | Technical Corrigendum 2. ]

The pdf text of just the Technical Corrigenda (changes to the previous editions of the standard) are available [TC1| TC2]

PDF Copies of the full standard can be obtained either from The IEEE (search on 1003.1), The Open Group (Look for documents T041,C046,C047,C048,C049) or ISO (search on 9945). (more information...)

A set of interface tables is available for the final standard.

Aardvark Defect Reports/Bug Reporting

To submit a bug report against the specifications please use this defect report form.

Candidate aardvark being worked on at the moment are here.

Previous aardvark for TC2 is here.

Interpretations of the standard resulting from defect reports are held in this repository.

Join the Review Group

Ongoing work is now shifting from maintenance to development of the next revision. To actively work on the Austin Group documents you need to join the austin-review mailing list. See the mailing list page for more information.

Recent Approval Status

Sept 15 2004 ISO/IEC published ISO/IEC 9945:2003/Cor-1:2004

April 2004 IEEE/The Open Group publish 2004 edition of standard

April 2004 ISO/IEC ballot passes for TC2.

(More....)

Certified Products

See the UNIX 03 certified products list.

See the POSIX®: Certified by IEEE and The Open Group certified products list.

Group Materials

Group materials are kept in the document register.


Some of the materials are in PDF format, reader software is available. The group also maintains a set of links to other related standards materials.

Future Plans

A revision to the current standard is in progress and planned to complete in 2008. Drafts are available for review from this site. You need to join the mailing list to get a login id.

The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical working group established to develop and maintain the core open systems interfaces that are the POSIX® 1003.1 (and former 1003.2) standards, ISO/IEC 9945 parts 1 to 4, and the core of the Single UNIX Specification, Version 3.

The approach to specification development is "write once, adopt everywhere", with the deliverables being a set of specifications that carry the IEEE POSIX designation, The Open Group's Technical Standard designation, and the ISO/IEC designation. The current set of specifications is simultaneously ISO/IEC 9945, IEEE Std 1003.1 and forms the core of the Single UNIX Specification Version 3 .

This unique development combines industry led efforts and the formal standardization activities into a single initiative, and includes a wide spectrum of participants. The group is free and open to participate in and features a balanced set of interest groups including commercial companies, influential figures from the open source community, liaisons from other standards groups, educational and government users, and user groups.

Working with the Open Source community

The group includes developers from the Open Source community. As part of acknowledging their valuable input the copyright holders have made several grants relating to use of the documentation in those projects. Some of these are listed below:

The IEEE and The Open Group grant Permissions to Linux Man Pages project to incorporate material.

The IEEE and The Open Group grant Permissions to the FreeBSD project to incorporate material.

NetBSD OPERATING SYSTEM TO ADD ELEMENTS OF THE POSIX® STANDARD

Other projects that have received permission grants related to use of documentation include Gunnar Ritter's Heirloom Toolkit and other tools, Joerg Schilling's pax and find, Jens Schweikardt book, and the ISPRAS Linux testing project.

How to get Involved

Why you should get involved with POSIX?

Read a backgrounder on the scope, audience and purpose for this standard.

View a set of slides (pdf) or read the long scope for the 2008 revision. for an overview.

Read the Frequently Asked Questions file.

The group is chaired by Andrew Josey from The Open Group. The Open Group manages the day to day running of the group providing the chair, the editor and email/web facilities.

Committee Draft Development Procedures

A set of Committee Maintenance Procedures for the Approved Standard are available for information (summary diagram).

The group has adopted the Aardvark comment format for change requests and defect reports. This allows for collation of change requests in order for production of a change request report to be considered at a review meeting.

Joint Working Group Procedures

JDOCS Procedures for Operation of the group are available.

Current Participants
As of May 2006 there are approximately 540 participants ,including those from the following entities (who have requested their company be listed):
  • AT&T
  • Bull SA.
  • Canada Customs and Revenue Agency
  • Cognos, Inc
  • DKUUG
  • FreeBSD
  • Future Technlogies, Inc.
  • Hewlett Packard Company
  • IEEE Inc.
  • International Business Machines, Corporation.
  • Investmentclub BAXX GbR
  • Linux Standard Base
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Marconi Communications
  • Microsoft
  • Mount Bonnell, Inc.
  • NetBSD
  • Perennial
  • Red Hat Inc.
  • Rogue Wave Software, Inc.
  • Sun Microsystems Inc.
  • SuSE Linux AG
  • The Open Group
  • The University of Alberta, Canada
  • The US Department of Defense
  • USENIX Association.
If you wish to have your company listed please contact the chair with your request. The full list of current participants is available from here.

Invitation To Participate
Anyone wishing to participate in the Austin Group should contact the chair with their requests. There are no fees for participation or membership. You may participate as an observer or as a contributor. You do not have to attend face-to-face meetings to participate, electronic participation is most welcome. Please subscribe to our Mailing list.

Active participants may also wish to apply for organizational membership of The Open Group. The Open Group is pleased to waiver the fees for those actively supporting this activity. See here for details (please note this is for organizations only). If your organization is already a member or you are an individual contact Andrew Josey directly for assistance.



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