Austin Group Status Report                      Austin-332 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.           January 5, 2007
                                                                                
The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical
working group that manages the joint specification that is  ISO/IEC 9945
(POSIX), IEEE Std 1003.1 and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.

Work continues in the Austin Group in regular teleconferences and on the
email reflector. The major work item is the revision of the
joint standard.

The Austin Group met at the Open Group offices in Reading UK, on
September 12-15 2006 to consider the feature content and 
options organization for the next revision of the standard. 

Deliverables from the plenary meeting include detailed editing
instructions for the merger of new materials and reorganization of the
options of the standard (Austin/317 *), together with an updated project
plan (Austin/319) detailing the timeline and draft contents and the
proposed ballot cycle.

Draft two of the revision was made available on October 31 2006 and
is now undergoing a three month review, including IEEE and
ISO ballots. A plenary meeting will be held to resolve the bug reports
in February 2007 (the week commencing February 26).  
Draft three would be the first draft on which the
narrowing down rules will be applied and subsequent drafts will then
aim to take the document through to completion of the relevant approval
ballots in the sponsoring bodies.  It is anticipated that the next
revision will complete by September 2008.


* See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html for the document register