Austin Group Status Report Austin-217 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. July 16, 2004 The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical working group established to consider the matter of a common revision of ISO/IEC 9945-1, ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE Std 1003.1, IEEE Std 1003.2 and the appropriate parts of the Single UNIX Specification. Having completed the initial deliverable in late 2001, the group is presently working on maintenance activities including producing two technical corrigenda so far, and interpretations of the standard. The most recent deliverable is the 2004 edition of the standard published on April 30 2004. The IEEE and The Open Group 2004 edition of the standard was published April 30 2003, and replaces the previous two editions. The 2004 Edition is formally known as: IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications, Issue 6 Includes IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002 and IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004 and its worth noting that within the text the standard is still referred to as IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. The standard is also an ISO/IEC international standard, denoted as ISO/IEC 9945:2003 and comprises four parts: Part 1: Base Definitions Part 2: System Interfaces Part 3: Shell and Utilities Part 4: Rationale ISO/IEC has decided to publish technical corrigenda rather than produce a new 2004 edition. The technical corrigenda will have the designations ISO/IEC 9945-1:2003/Cor.1:2004(E) ISO/IEC 9945-2:2003/Cor.1:2004(E) ISO/IEC 9945-3:2003/Cor.1:2004(E) ISO/IEC 9945-4:2003/Cor.1:2004(E) respectively. Final text has been submitted to ISO for publication. IEEE and The Open Group have recently granted the FreeBSD project permission to derive and excerpt manual pages from the standard. Regular periodic teleconferences continue to be held to review new defect reports (aardvark). Further information on the Austin Group can be obtained at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/faq.html The online version of the standard can be obtained at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html