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- From: ahby@bungia.bungia.mn.org (Shane P. McCarron)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Standards Update, Part 1: Overview
- Message-ID: <268@longway.TIC.COM>
- Date: 10 Dec 88 23:24:34 GMT
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- Reply-To: Shane P. McCarron <ahby@bungia.bungia.mn.org>
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- Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)
-
- [ These Standards Updates are published after each IEEE 1003
- meeting, and are commissioned by the USENIX Association.
- Because the report, like the committees it reports on,
- has become long and involved, it is being posted in parts,
- currently nine, with perhaps more to follow. Feel free
- to reply or follow up to any part or to the whole thing.
-
- Much of the information in the report was collected through
- the USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee. If you want to
- participate, see the addresses in Part 1 below. -mod ]
-
-
- An update on UNIX|= Standards Activities - Part 1
-
- Overview
-
- December 8, 1988
-
- Shane P. McCarron, NAPS International
-
- This is the fourth in a series of articles on Unix related
- standards activities. In this edition I am going to cover a
- slightly wider area than usual. There have been
- developments at the ANSI X3 level, the National Bureau of
- Standards, and within the POSIX committees that all deserve
- attention. Because there is so much material this article
- has been divided into a series for posting to Usenet. I will
- apologize at the outset for the length of this series, but I
- feel that all of the information is timely and important.
- In addition to information on group activities, included
- with each report is a contact person from whom you can get
- more information about these developments, and the names of
- Watchdog Committee members through whom you can relay your
- opinions to the specific standards committees.
-
- On the subject of the Watchdog Committee, this series is now
- an activity of that group. Last quarter I used the article
- to solicit participation in the committee, and I am pleased
- to report that we have a number of new associate members.
- While I am not familiar with everyone now involved, I would
- like to thank those who contributed heavily to this series:
- Ted Baker, Mark Colburn, Doug Gwyn, Sol Kavy, Doris
- Lebovits, Kevin Lewis. We are still in search of members
- for this group. While we will accept all comers, we are
- particularly interested in filling out our rather lean
- international input department. If you would like to be
- involved in the Watchdog activities, or know of someone who
- might be a good candidate, please contact:
-
- John S. Quarterman
- Texas Internet Consulting
- 701 Brazos, Suite 500
- Austin, TX 78701-3243
- (512) 320-9031
- jsq@longway.tic.com
- or
-
- __________
-
- |= UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and
- other countries.
-
-
- - 2 -
-
- Mark Colburn
- NAPS International
- 117 Mackubin St.
- Suite 1
- St. Paul, MN 55102
- (612) 224-9108
- mark@naps.mn.org
-
- IEEE P1003 - The POSIX Committees
-
- The POSIX committees met October 24th - 28th in Honolulu,
- Hawaii. At this meeting there were a record breaking 200+
- attendees and meetings for eight working groups. Included
- in this series are updates on each of the groups within
- P1003, with the exception of IEEE P1003.6 and 1003.8. We
- are awaiting further information on those groups.
-
- Please look to the subsequent postings in this series for
- all of the reports. If you have any comments or
- suggestions, please contact me at:
-
- Shane P. McCarron
- NAPS International
- 117 Mackubin St.
- Suite 6
- St. Paul, MN 55102
- +1 (612) 224-9239
- ahby@bungia.mn.org
- uunet!bungia.mn.org!ahby
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 36
-