Austin Group Status Update                              Austin/53 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. July 31st 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 4 is now available. This is the first feature complete draft of
the specification.  Concurrent IEEE and ISO balloting will take place on
this draft.  Draft 4 totals some ~3600 pages (XSH+XCU+XBD=3308, XRAT=279).
New features in this draft include alignment with the following:
	C99
        IEEE Draft Std P1003.1q

There is an eight week review period commencing August 1st and
completing at 8am UK time on Sept 27th. A plenary review meeting
is being held during the week commencing October 9th to process the comments
arising from the Draft 4 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).