Joint Meeting Agenda



Joint Meeting Agenda (Austin/339)
Feb 27 - March 1 2007
Austin, Texas, hosted by IBM

The twelfth plenary meeting of the Austin Group is being held in Austin, Texas. The meeting is being hosted by IBM.

The PASC SEC and The Open Group Base Working Group may also meet colocated (to be confirmed).

Logistics information are available here.

Meeting Goals

The goal of this meeting is to review draft 2 comments for the 200x revision, and continue processing inbound defect reports so that they can be addressed in draft 3.

The main part of the meeting will be spent doing issue resolution based on Aardvark comments submitted against Draft 2 and also those outstanding on the 2004 edition of the standard was completed. Attendees are assumed to be familiar with the proposed dispositions for the aardvark prior to the attendance of the meeting - these will not be discussed unless there is some disagreement with the proposal.

Meeting Preparation

Materials will be available at the meeting in electronic form on a reference CD-ROM and mountable USB memory stick. Please familiarise yourself with the documents produced from earlier Austin Group meetings ; these documents are available in the online document register.

Meeting Format

The meeting will consist of full time plenary sessions.

Other Meetings:
To be confirmed

Meeting Times

The meeting is expected to run from 9.30 am  to 5pm  Tuesday, and 9am to 5pm Wed and Thursday 9am to 2pm.

Lunchtime will be 12 noon thru to 1pm

There will be a teleconference bridge and IRC channel for those who cannot travel.

The dial in information will follow.


Preliminary Agenda Items

  1. 08:30 Coffee and Cakes
  2. 09:30 Administrivia
  3. Procedures Update
  4. Identification of Organizational Reps
  5. Status Reports
  6. Old business
  7. New business
  8. Consent list
  9. Issues list
  10. Action Item Review
  11. Draft & Meeting Schedule
  12. AOB


If you have comments or additions to the Agenda please send them to Andrew Josey.