Austin Group Organizational Representative Report       Austin-1147 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group,              July 22, 2021
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 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 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 current activities are development of a major revision, as well
as  maintenance of ISO/IEC 9945, and managing
defect reports.

The next revision is intended as a major revision. It is expected
to complete in 2022. The project plan is available in the document
register — see section 3 of Austin/937r1 (see
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html).  The second committee
draft of the revision is now available, and we expect the first
ISO ballot to be in late 2021 together with a New Work Item submission.

National Body experts wishing to be involved in the development of
this revision are welcome, and should contact either the OR (Nick
Stoughton) or chair of the WG (Andrew Josey).

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

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).

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


Respectfully submitted,

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