Austin Group Status Update Austin/41 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. February 1st 2000 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. As of February 2000, two drafts have been produced, totalling some 2700 pages of material. At the time of writing , preparation is well under way for draft three. Draft three integrates materials from the following base documents: Networking Services Issue 5 Version 2 IEEE Std 1003.1d-1999 IEEE Std 1003.2d-1994 IEEE Draft Std P1003.1a IEEE Draft Std P1003.2b IEEE Draft Std P1003.1j Its worth noting that this will be the first revision to the Commands and Utilities volume since 1992. After production of Draft 3, there is a two month review period before the plenary meeting in May. Comments should be sent to the review reflector and use the aardvark comment format (see http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/format.html for more information). During the review period a report on the changes needed for alignment with c99 will be produced. This can then also be discussed in plenary prior to draft 4. Draft 4 will be the feature complete draft of the specification, and the new features over d3 that are anticipated (subject to agreement of the plenary) are c99 alignment and 1003.1q. The next plenary meeting will be held during the week commencing May 15th. Summary slides giving the latest Austin Group status are available at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/materials/jan2000/. Slides from the January teleconference are available at: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/materials/jan2000/teleconference/ . To participate in the Austin Group visit the web site at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ . ----- Andrew Josey The Open Group Austin Group Chair Apex Plaza,Forbury Road, Email: a.josey@opengroup.org Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England Tel: +44 118 9508311 ext 2250 Fax: +44 118 9500110 The XNS 5v2 Specification is at http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/c808.htm