Austin Group Status Report                             Austin-436 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              July 4, 2008
                                                                                

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.

This group has a liaison to JTC 1/SC22 as it is the development
and maintenance body for the ISO/IEC 9945 standard.

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 meets 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 current draft of the revision, draft 5.1 was made available in May
2008 and can be obtained at:
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/login.html 
(a login id and password is required). This is intended to be the final
draft and has been submitted for approval in the three sponsoring
bodies.

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