Austin Group Status Update                              Austin/42 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. March 1st 2000

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.

Draft 3 has now been produced, totalling some 3196 pages (XSH=1588,
XCU=1146, XBD=462).  Draft three integrates materials from  the following
base  documents:

        Networking Services Issue 5 Version 2
        IEEE Std 1003.1d-1999
        IEEE Std 1003.2d-1994
        IEEE Draft Std P1003.1a
        IEEE Draft Std P1003.2b
        IEEE Draft Std P1003.1j

There is a two month review period commencing March 1st and
completing at 8am UK time on May 2nd. A plenary review meeting
is being held in Reading UK on May 15-19 to process the comments
arising from the Draft 3 review period. Comments should be sent
to the review reflector and use the aardvark comment format (see
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/format.html for more
information).

During the review period a report on the changes needed for alignment
with c99 will be produced. This will be discussed in plenary 
at the May plenary session.

Draft 4 will be the feature complete draft of the specification,
and the new features over d3 that are anticipated (subject to
agreement of the plenary) are c99 alignment and 1003.1q.