Because they have not (yet) signed the Memorandum of Understanding.
This press release really covers just the IPR issues; it is perhaps
unfortunate that it does not mention ISO as a participant in the
engineering effort, but that has been covered in earlier announcements.
The press release also calls out the URL of the Austin Group home-page.
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On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 04:01:05PM +0100, Andrew Josey wrote:
> All,
>
> The Open Group and The IEEE have produced a press release
> announcing the joint revision, see
> http://www.opengroup.org/austin/austinpr.html
I am quite astonished about this press release. Why are you
not mentioning the 3rd partner in the work, that is ISO/IEC ?
Keld Simonsen
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