Austin Group Status Update                              Austin-12 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              January 15th, 1999

This  is a brief status update after this weeks quarterly PASC meeting,
held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The joint procedures group met again this week. The proposed procedures
are now firming up and we expect to circulate those to this group by
February 1st.

There are also business issues that need to be agreed between TOG and IEEE
and discussions are ongoing.

It is believed that the output of the joint procedures group will
be sufficient for the technical group to commence its work shortly.

Current thoughts for meetings for 1999 are now as follows; up to four
meetings this year. The first meeting is expected to occur  March 2/3
just before Linux Expo (in the Bay area), with another meeting in
July (at the joint PASC/TOG meeting in Montreal July 18-23).

I will send out the call for the first meeting very shortly once I have
confirmed with the host. This first meeting is expected to focus on generating
the table of contents for the specifications, to make enough decisions
so that a first draft  would be produced  for the July meeting. We expect
to produce  two drafts this year.



Andrew Josey
The Open Group