ISO/IEC 9945 Project Editor Status Report               Austin-353  Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              March 8, 2007
                                                                                
ISO/IEC 9945 is developed and maintained by the Austin Common Standards
Revision Group (CSRG), a joint technical working group that brings
together the technical experts from ISO JTC1, IEEE and The Open Group.


The ISO Editing group met co-joint with the Austin Group 
at IBM  in Austin, Texas, USA  on February 27 - 
March 1 2007 to review comments received on the ISO CD registration
ballot for the revision of the 9945 standard.
All the ISO comments were accepted and will be acted upon in future drafts.

Deliverables from the plenary meeting include detailed editing
instructions for the editors based on the review comments
(Austin/348-352 *), together with an updated project plan (Austin/345,
Austin/346) detailing the timeline and the  ballot cycle.

The next draft to be produced will be Draft 3 on June 15 2007.  This is
one month later than originally planned, but this is due to one of the
later drafts being omitted from the schedule as balloting on draft two
indicates a better  level of consensus than planned.  Draft three will
be submitted for a fourth month FCD ballot.

Note that the Austin Group is proposing to change the organization of
the document produced such that it will be a single very large pdf file,
previously it had been produced as four separate volumes. This is to
further emphasize that this is a single standard. 

Also within the standard the Austin Group is reviewing the term that
it uses to describe itself --- currently this states
IEEE Std 1003.1-200x -- the group would like to move to a
term that would be acceptable for both the IEEE and ISO community,
such as POSIX.1-200x with appropriate frontmatter to explain what
that means.

The next face to face ISO Editors meeting will be in Reading, UK in the week
commencing September 4th 2007. Regular teleconference calls continue
within the Austin Group.


Respectfully submitted,
Andrew Josey
ISO 9945 Project Editor

* See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html for the document
register


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