Austin Group Status Update                              Austin/92 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. June 15th 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 7 is now available, and totals some 3700 pages. This is the third
recirculation of the complete draft of the specification, and is intended
to be the final draft. It is a significant milestone as it completes the
development plan as per the schedule to deliver the document technically
complete in 2Q2001.

No further normative changes are planned. The draft is made
available  for a recirculation period which allows the proposed final
text and  objections remaining to be circulated amongst the balloters.

Please see the reviewers notes which accompany the draft for details
of the changes in this draft.  Strict narrowing down rules will be
enforced on this draft to allow us to submit the specification to the
IEEE Standards Board at the end of July. Major issues and defects from
this point on will be addressed in Technical Corrigendum Number 1. We
will be establishing an Austin Group interpretations reflector to capture
defect reports.

The Austin Group recirculation period commences June 18 and completes at
8am UK time on June 30th 2001. A teleconference will be held early in July
to discuss the comments arising from the Draft 7 recirculation. 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).

The IEEE 10 day recirculation is expected to commence on June 19th and
complete on June 29. Should there be new objections then as per
IEEE processes, these objections will be recirculated again
to the ballot group in a further 10 day recirculation.