Austin Group Organizational Representative Report       Austin-950 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group,              July 15, 2019
and Nick Stoughton, ISO/IEC OR

The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical
working group established to develop and maintain the core open
systems interfaces that are the POSIX® 1003.1 (and former 1003.2)
standards, ISO/IEC 9945, and the core of the Single UNIX Specification.
The working group brings together the technical experts from ISO
JTC1, IEEE and The Open Group.

The latest revision to the standard was published in January 2018.
It is a revision to the 2008 edition of the 9945 standard and
rolled-up the standard including its two technical corrigenda
(as-is), so as to avoid the standard timing out at IEEE in 2018.

The current activities are maintenance of ISO/IEC 9945, managing
defect reports and consideration of changes for the next revision.

The working group is now working on another revision expected to
complete in 2022. The project plan is available in the document
register as Austin/936 and Austin/937 (see
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html).  A copy of Austin/937,
including the JTC 1 Business Case, is attached to this report.  The
first committee draft of the revision is expected to be available
in 4Q2019, and we expect the first ISO ballot to be in September
2020 together with a New Work Item submission.

National Body experts wishing to be involved in the development of
this revision are welcome, and should contact either the OR (Nick
Stoughton) or chair of the WG (Andrew Josey).

The group meets regularly by teleconference to consider defect
reports and issues on the current approved standard. Minutes are
kept in the Document register at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docreg.html .

The group uses an online defect reporting system for maintenance
of the standard, see http://austingroupbugs.net

The next working group meeting is listed at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ in the events diary (a Google
Calendar also exists to which you can subscribe).

Further information on the Austin Group can be obtained at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/faq.html


Respectfully submitted,

Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Nick Stoughton ISO/IEC Organization Representative to the Austin Group