9945 Project Editor Status Report               Austin-1239  Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group              July 16, 2022

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.

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 targeted
to complete in 2023.  There have been two committee drafts to date.
We are working towards draft 3, for which we expect the first ISO
ballot to be in late 2022 or early 2023 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 the 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.


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

Respectfully submitted,

Andrew Josey
9945 Project Editor.