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- I am in receipt of a letter from John Quarterman, the official moderator
- of this newsgroup, requesting that his report from the IEEE 1003 meeting
- in Florence be posted to this newsgroup.
-
- That report, transcribed as accurately as my ability to decipher his
- handwriting permits :-), follows herewith:
-
- ................
- 1986 April 23
-
-
- The timezone discussion was of much interest to the
- IEEE 1003 committee, who would like to include something
- appropriate in a Full Use Standard. I delivered a copy of
- Volume 5 of mod.std.unix (all 155 pages). To the relief of
- the committee, I also included a summary index that I had
- done on the plane over. More details after the following
- background.
-
- There are now several levels of documents associated
- with IEEE 1003:
-
- - Standards (Trial Use / Full Use)
- - Proposed Draft Standards
- - Proposals
- - Requests For Comments (RFCs)
- - Comments
-
- The latter two categories are new as of the Florence
- meeting. Most everything posted in mod.std.unix and remotely
- related to IEEE 1003 is now a Comment.
-
- Some articles may become Requests for Comments by the
- moderator obtaining an RFC number from the 1003 secretary
- (Steve Head) and reposting the article with the RFC number
- in the Subject. Mark Horton's original timezone article
- would have made an appropriate RFC, for instance. The
- submitter can request that an article be an RFC, perhaps
- before it is originally posted.
-
- A proposal is a formal request to add, delete, or
- correct specific wording in the current P1003 draft or
- standard. Proposal numbers are assigned by the committee
- chair (Jim Isaak).
-
- Proposals, RFCs, and Comments may come from almost
- anywhere, by most reasonable written forms of communication.
- Proposals and RFCs each have serial numbers (plus date,
- title, authors, section numbers for the affected areas in
- the current draft or standard, and possibly key words).
- Comments should have all these things except for serial
- numbers. So please include draft and section number in
- subjects of articles submitted to mod.std.unix about P1003.
-
- Back to timezones .... RFC.001, submitted to the IEEE
- 1003 working group in FLorence on 1986 April 18, consists
- of:
- - summary of mod.std.unix Vol. 5, by John Quarterman
- - article 65, proposed interface, by Robert Elz
- - timezone examples from article 68 by Arthur Olson
- (just the examples from the last few pages, not all
- of the article)
- - proposal form by John Quarterman
-
- The last item has the same intent as the Elz article but is
- in a form which should be as usable as an actual proposal.
- It may be submitted as such at the next meeting. So get your
- comments in before the Atlanta USENIX in mid-June if you
- want them to affect that particular proposal.
-
- There was another RFC (from HP) which solved all the
- problems but by a slightly different mechanism. Perhaps its
- author would like to post it?
-
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 6, Number 16
-
-