Austin Group Chair Status Report               Austin-938  Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              May 26, 2019

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® 1003.1 (and former 1003.2)
standards, ISO/IEC 9945, and the core of the Single UNIX Specification.
The working group brings together the technical experts from ISO
JTC1, IEEE and The Open Group.

The approach to specification development is "write once, adopt
everywhere", with the deliverables being a set of specifications
that carry the IEEE POSIX designation, The Open Group Technical
Standard designation, and the ISO/IEC designation. The current set
of specifications is simultaneously ISO/IEC 9945, IEEE Std 1003.1
and forms the core of the Single UNIX Specification.

The latest revision to the standard was published in January 2018.
It is a revision to the 2008 standard and rolled-up the standard
including its two technical corrigenda (as-is), so as to avoid the
standard timing out at IEEE in 2018. 

The working group is now working on another revision expected to
complete in 2022. The project plan is being developed and 
is available in the document register as Austin/936 and Austin/937
(see http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html). The first draft
 of the revision is expected to be available in 4Q2019.


Respectfully submitted,
Andrew Josey
Austin Group Chair.