9945 Project Editor Status Report               Austin-1146  Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              July 22, 2021

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 edition of the 9945 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 document is being developed using git version control, with an
automated ci/cd pipeline using GitLab. The build environment is
contained within a Docker image.

Work is ongoing to revise the standard, with two committee
drafts having completed informal reviews. The plan for the work is
available in the document register — see section 3 of Austin/937r1
(see http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html).  The target
completion date is late 2022.

A committee draft (draft 2 May 2021) is available from the Austin
Group web site. We anticipate a third draft in 3Q2021. If the third
draft is feature complete we expect to initiate IEEE, and ISO
balloting on this draft. Meetings will be held after that date as
part of the regular Austin Group meetings to resolve comments.

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

Respectfully submitted,

Andrew Josey
9945 Project Editor.