SC22/WG20 N918

Subject: (SC22WG15.1624) Austin Group Status March 2002
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. March 25 2002
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:01 AM

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 March 2002, the final draft of the specification has been
approved by two of the three sponsoring organizations (The Open
Group and the IEEE). At ISO, progress has been slow, and we are
still waiting for the final up/down ballot to complete --- note that
ISO is not allowed to make any changes to the document in this final
ballot.

The Open Group and the IEEE have proceeded to make the document available in various media formats (note that the IEEE and The Open Group documents are identical).

The IEEE has the standard available for online delivery in pdf and CDROM, 
to order a copy from the IEEE go to http://shop.ieee.org
and search on 1003.1-2001.

The Open Group has the standard available for online delivery in pdf
and CDROM as part of its set for the Single UNIX Specification Version 3.
To obtain a copy from The Open Group go to
http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/un.htm (look for documents,
T950X,C950,C951,C952,C953). The Open Group has also done a limited
production run of the hardcopy published standard for orders, with
the latest run closing March 31st 2002, please see
http://www.opengroup.org/products/publications/order_forms/order.html

The Open Group and the IEEE reached agreement early in January to produce a
freely available html version of the standard on the web, and publication
of the web version was announced on January 30th. See
http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/ for information on how to register
to view the free html version.

A guide book to the revised standard is also available from The
Open Group and includes a CDROM with the standard in pdf, html and text.
See http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/theguide.html for more information.

The focus for the Austin Group is now on technical
corrigenda number one. The scope of this item is limited to bugfixing.
The aardvark is available from the Austin Group home page
at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/defectform.html to receive defect
reports. There are currently 59 defect reports filed.
It is anticipated that a meeting will be held during May or June
to review defect report input to TC1.

More information on the Austin Group can be obtained from the
web site at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/


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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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