Austin Group Status Report Austin-374 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. July 30, 2007 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(R) 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 current activities are maintenance of the current approved standard and production of a full revision to the standard. The goal of the full revision is to produce a new approved standard in 2008. The group continues to meet regularly by teleconference to consider defect reports and issues on the current approved standard, and holding face to face meetings twice a year on average to review ballot comments against the draft revision. See the Austin Group home page at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ for the events diary (a Google Calendar exists to which you can subscribe). The current plan and timeline for the project is available at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_345.html The Austin Group has been made aware of some issues and potential incompatibilities between the POSIX standard and the future revision of ISO/IEC 14882 (C++ Programming Language) with respect to threading APIs. The Austin Group will be discussing these issues during their next meeting in September 2007. The current draft of the revision, draft 3 was made available in June 2007 and can be obtained at: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/login.html (a login id and password is required) Further information on the Austin Group can be obtained at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/faq.html The online version of the current standard can be obtained at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html