Minutes of the 26th April 2018 Teleconference     Austin-865 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 27th April 2018

Attendees:
    Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR
    Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer
    Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
    Andreas Grapentin, University Potsdam, HPI
    Geoff Clare, The Open Group
    Eric Blake, Red Hat
    David Clissold, IBM
    Martin Rehak, Oracle, The Open Group OR

Apologies:
    Richard Hansen, Google
    Andrew Josey, The Open Group 
    Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems

* General news 

No news

* Outstanding actions

( Please note that this section has been flushed to shorten the minutes -
to locate the previous set of outstanding actions, look to the minutes
from 9 March 2018 and earlier)


* Current Business

Bug 1077: Recommend support for wide-character regcomp and regexec and/or specify multi-byte behavior OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1077

Andrew reported he has completed his action and will report back
when he has an update from Apple.

We deferred bugs 1084, 1085 and 1100 until Joerg is on the call.



Bug 1102: inet_addr() cannot parse 255.255.255.255. Mark it as obsolete, add inet_aton(), or both? Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1102

This item is tagged for Issue 8.

After applying the changes from 0001101, apply the following changes:

On page 934 line 31730-31731 (getaddrinfo() DESCRIPTION) change:
    If the specified address family is AF_INET or AF_UNSPEC, address
    strings using Internet standard dot notation as specified in
    inet_addr( ) are valid

to:
    If the specified address family is AF_INET or AF_UNSPEC, address
    strings using Internet standard dot notation as specified in
    inet_pton( ) are valid.

On page 1137 lines 38404-38406 (inet_addr(), inet_ntoa() SYNOPSIS),
mark the entire SYNOPSIS obsolescent and on the remainder of the
page remove the other OB shading that was added by 0001101.

On page 1138 after line 38441 but before the new paragraph added
from 0001101, insert a new paragraph:

    Applications should prefer inet_pton( ) over inet_addr( ) for
    the following reasons:
	The return value from inet_addr( ) when converting
	255.255.255.255 is indistinguisable from an error.

	The inet_pton( ) function supports multiple address families.

	The alternative textual representations supported by
	inet_addr( ) (but not by inet_pton( )) are often used
	maliciously to confuse or mislead users (e.g., for phishing).


On page 1138 line 38445 replace the FUTURE DIRECTIONS section with:
    These functions are included only for compatibility with older
    implementations and may be removed in a future version.


On page 1139 line 38478 (inet_pton() DESCRIPTION) delete:
    (see inet_addr( ))



Bug 1103: Spacing issues in mailx "Command Escapes" after pdftotext:  OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1103

Andrew has an action to check whether the fix in 1103 made it into
the PDF. 
Andrew confirms that the change to the troff was made, and the pdf was
rebuilt with that change in it.

Bug 1104: Missing period.    Accepted
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1104
This item is tagged for tc3-2008.

Bug 1105: problems with backslashes in awk strings and EREs OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1105

We will pick up on this item next time.

Next Steps
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The next call is on May 3rd, 2018 (a Thursday)

Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) 
This call will be for the regular 90 minutes.

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