Austin Group Organizational Representative Report       Austin-616 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group,              June 27, 2013
and Nick Stoughton, ISO/IEC OR


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 IEEE POSIX(R) 1003.1 (and former 1003.2) standards,
ISO/IEC 9945, and the core of the Single UNIX Specification.


Recent achievements include completion of the first technical
corrigendum to ISO/IEC 9945:2009. The technical corrigendum
is expected to be published by ISO shortly, and is already available
from both IEEE (as standard 1003.1, 2013) and The Open Group
(as Base Specifications, Issue 7, 2013 edition).

The current activities are maintenance of ISO/IEC 9945, managing
defect reports and consideration of changes for the next 
revision. It is probable that a second technical corrigendum document
will be prepared in the near future, and a full revision is anticipated within
the five year cycle (i.e. before 2018).

The group meets regularly by teleconference to consider defect reports
and issues on the current approved standard. Minutes are kept in
the Document register at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html .

The group uses an online defect reporting system for
maintenance of the standard,
see http://austingroupbugs.net

Further information on the Austin Group can be obtained at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/faq.html

The next working group meeting is listed at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/
in the events diary (a Google Calendar also exists to which you can subscribe).


Respectfully submitted,
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Nick Stoughton ISO/IEC Organization Representative to the Austin Group