Austin Group Status Update                              Austin-58 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              October 16th, 2000



The sixth meeting of the joint technical working group
informally known as the Austin Group was held at the
IBM facility in Austin, Texas on October 10-13 2000. The meeting
had 20 attendees (including two part-time) .

The objective of this meeting was to review the draft four
specifications. A four day plenary session was held, and
over 1350 change requests were processed (at an average of
51 aardvark requests per hour, this was up
over previous times [43 per hour in Reading, 47 per hour in Montreal]). 

The minutes and documents Austin/SD1, Austin/SD2
should be read for further details. 

The next draft (Draft 5) will be produced in Mid December and will
fold in the changes identified by the review of draft 4.
Draft five will be the second feature complete draft.

Draft five review is scheduled for Dec 15 2000, and will be available
for an 8 week review period, closing in Feb 2001 .  The formal review
period for draft five will include concurrent IEEE balloting .

The next plenary meeting will be in March 2001 (the week commencing
March 5) to  review aardvark arising from draft five. This meeting
will be a five day meeting and be held in the USA at a location to
be confirmed.