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- Submitted-by: stephe@usenix.org (Stephen R. Walli)
-
- Kevin Lewis <klewis@gucci.enet.dec.com> reports on the April 8-12,
- 1992 meeting in Dallas, TX:
-
- As I reported in the January Snitch for POSIX.0, the POSIX Guide to
- Open Systems Environments (OSE) is going to formal ballot (finally, as
- someone in the SEC said to me...). If you are in the TCOS Balloting
- Pool, you should have received an invitation to join the ballot group
- for this work.
-
- The formal ballot will be on draft 15 which is being produced
- presently. The changes submitted by the group to produce this draft
- strictly addressed the mock ballot comments. The group agreed (after
- I placed a gag order on them) not to surface or open any issues that
- had previously been considered closed. This went a long way towards
- our moving through the comments and objections. (By the way, if you
- were one of our mock balloters, please be patient. I will be sending
- out a summary along with detailed ballot resolutions after I have
- completed the formal ballot package for IEEE.)
-
- The formal ballot closure date has not yet been determined. Although
- it appears that the end of August is the likely time frame. Our goal
- is to have a significant number of ballot responses into IEEE and the
- ballot coordinator (i.e. me), prior to the October meeting in Europe
- so we can use that time for ballot resolution, as well as share the
- results with our European counterparts.
-
- Two issues remain as we move toward formal ballot. One is a rationale
- document. It became apparent during the April meeting, that our
- attempts to use our Issues Log along with the minutes and
- institutional memory of the core participants of the group, were
- lacking when it came to actually documenting our rationale for certain
- issues. So the July meeting has been dedicated to the task of
- developing and writing this document.
-
- The other issue is that of public specifications. Our document is
- moving into the international formal standards forums. Looking out to
- the horizon, we expect their will be a lot of consternation over the
- group's choice to include informal specifications in the guide.
-
- This will undoubtedly shape into another battle of significant
- proportions. The formal ballot period should offer the current
- warriors a chance to take a breather.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 32
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