Austin Group Status Update                              Austin/80 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. April 17th 2001

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.

Draft 6 is now available. This is the second recirculation of the complete
draft of the specification. This is known as the Sanity Review draft.

Since Draft 5 passed The Open Group Fasttrack ballot, and the IEEE
ballot the document is now effectively complete. The main purpose of
the draft 6 recirculation is an editorial review to ensure that changes
arising from the Draft 5 review have been applied as the review group
intended. Thus, for this recirculation, we are now in a strict narrowing
down process. Objections can only be accepted on certain sections of
the document.

  1.An objection will only be accepted if it supports an objection from
  the draft 5 review for which no changes were made to the draft, or if it
  concerns a technical change that was made between draft 5 and draft 6.

  To assist in determining these differences, changes between Draft 5
  and Draft 6 are denoted with change bars. An objection to a change
  must relate only to the material change and not be for a different
  matter at the same line (note that many of the change bars are for
  shallification and other editorial matters).

  If possible when raising an objection it would be helpful for reviewers
  to include a reference to the corresponding Enhancement Request Number
  (ERN) from the Draft 5 review change requests, if known.

  2.You may raise a comment on any part of the document

  3.You may raise an editorial comment on any part of the document

Concurrent IEEE balloting and The Open Group Review will take place on
this draft.  Draft 6 totals some 3698 pages.  Please see the reviewers
notes which accompany the draft for details of the changes in this
draft.
There is one month review period commencing April 17 and
completing at 8am UK time on May 21st 2001. A plenary review meeting
is being held during the week commencing May 29th to process the comments
arising from the Draft 6 review period. 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).

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Andrew Josey                                The Open Group
Austin Group Chair                          Apex Plaza,Forbury Road,
Email: a.josey@opengroup.org                Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England
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