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- From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@usenix.org>
-
- The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems
- (IEEE/CS TCOS) is the group that sponsors the IEEE 1003 (POSIX),
- IEEE 1201, etc. standards committees related to the UNIX operating
- system. TCOS (in the form of its Standards Executive Committee, or SEC)
- recently approved a number of requests for work on new documents or for
- the formation of new committees, as has been reported previously in
- this newsgroup.
-
- These Project Authorization Requests (PARs) then had to be approved by
- the IEEE Standards Board (SB), which met a few weeks ago. The SB
- usually approves everything TCOS sends them, and in fact did so this
- time. However, they changed many of the characteristic numbers that
- identify the committees from the numbers that were proposed in the PARs
- and sent to SB by TCOS, and they also changed some of the titles slightly.
-
- Some sort of revised compendium of the current TCOS-sponsored committees
- will appear in this newsgroup soon, but in the meantime, here is a brief
- list of the specific changes. The appended information comes from Jim Isaak,
- IEEE/CS TCOS Chair.
-
- John S. Quarterman <jsq@usenix.org>
- Institutional Representative from USENIX to IEEE/CS TCOS.
-
-
- 1003.1a is now 1003.1 (a revision of a standard, takes on the full number)
-
- 1003.1b is now 1003.1a (because of the elevation of the above item)
-
- 1003.4b is a revision of 1003.4, and as such is a NEW PAR for 1003.4 !!
-
- 1003.4c is now 1003.4b (because of the elevation of the above item)
-
- without a .13 and .15, all those numbered higher have been advanced:
-
- 1003.14 is now 1003.13 (Bill Corwin gets the lucky number)
-
- 1003.16 is now 1003.14 (Bob Knighten & co)
-
- 1003.17 is now 1003.15 (Batch for SC)
-
- 1238.1 is 1238 (foundation document)
- 1238.2 is now 1238.1 (dependent document)
-
- title of 1003.2 has had "Part 2:" added (we dropped it by mistake in my office)
-
- title of 1238 documents has had "PART #" removed in both cases.
-
- title of 1237 is now .... Application Program Interface for RPC.
-
- Title of 1003.2a has a comma added "shell and utilities, ..."
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 24
-
-