Austin Group Status Report                      Austin-391 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.           Sep 10, 2007
                                                                                
The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical
working group that manages the joint specification that is  ISO/IEC 9945
(POSIX), IEEE Std 1003.1 and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.

Work continues in the Austin Group in regular teleconferences and on the
email reflector.  The major work item is the revision of the
joint standard, with the goal of a revised standard in 2008 (targeted
for the September 2008 IEEE Standards Board).

The Austin Group met at The Open Group in Reading, UK  on
September 4-7 2007 to review comments received on Draft three
of the revision and defect reports against the 2004 edition.

Deliverables from the plenary meeting include detailed editing
instructions for the editors based on the review comments (Austin/392-396
*), together with an updated project plan (Austin/389, Austin/390)
detailing the timeline and the  ballot cycle.  Interim update drafts
(Austin Group review only)  are targeted for late September 2007 and
mid October 2007.  Draft 4 is planned for December 15 2007.

The next face to face meeting will be in the San Francisco, USA in the
week commencing Feb 25 2008. In the meanwhile the Austin Group meets
regularly by teleconference (at least bi-weekly).


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