Austin Group Status Update                              Austin/100 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. January 18th 2002

The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical
working group established to consider the matter of a common revision
of ISO/IEC 9945-1, ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE Std 1003.1, IEEE Std 1003.2 and
the appropriate parts of the Single UNIX Specification.

As of January 2002, the final draft of the specification has been approved
by two of the three sponsoring organizations (The Open Group and the
IEEE) and is now in the final approvals process  at ISO, which is
a final up/down ballot with no changes allowed to the document.

Given that there can be no further changes to the text we have now
moved to initial publication.  The final text for publication was
completed by the editorial team upon IEEE approval on December 6th
2001, and can be obtained in various media formats from both The Open
Group and the IEEE (note that the IEEE and The Open Group documents are
identical).

The IEEE has the standard available for online delivery in pdf and CDROM, 
to order a copy from the IEEE go to http://shop.ieee.org
and search on 1003.1-2001.

The Open Group has the standard available for online delivery in pdf
and CDROM as part of its set for the Single UNIX Specification Version
3.  To order a copy from The Open Group go to
http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/un.htm (look for documents,
T950X,C950,C951,C952,C953). The Open Group is also doing a limited
production run of the hardcopy published standard for orders received
before January 31st 2002, please see
http://www.opengroup.org/products/publications/order_forms/order.html

I am also pleased to report that The Open Group and the IEEE
have reached an agreement to produce a freely available html
version of the standard on the web. Publication of the web
version will follow in a few weeks. 

The technical focus for the moment for the Austin Group
is now on technical corrigenda number one. The scope of this
item is limited to bugfixing.  The aardvark is now available again
from the Austin Group home page at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/defectform.html 
to receive defect reports.