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- From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@usenix.org>
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- USENIX and Standards
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- As a result of the increasing importance of standards in the UNIX
- community, the USENIX Association is expanding its involvement in
- standards related to the UNIX operating system. The Association is
- interested in promoting technical stability through standards without
- limiting technical progress.
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- Since 1986, the Association has had an Institutional Representative on
- the IEEE P1003 (POSIX) committee. This expanding standards effort
- includes greater coverage of the P1003 subcommittees, as well as the
- /usr/group Technical Committee and of the ANSII X3J11 C Language committee.
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- USENIX Association standards involvement includes:
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- % providing information to the membership and the public through ;login:,
- comp.std.unix on USENET, BOFs at conferences, and in the trade press;
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- % providing forums for technical discussion which may include
- workshops or technical sessions at conferences;
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- % acting as an ombudsman for those otherwise unrepresented on the
- standards committees;
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- % encouraging people to become involved in the standards efforts;
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- % attempting to enhance the technical quality of the standards by
- encouraging concise, written proposals.
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- This expanded USENIX Association standards effort is being implemented
- through two committees. The first is a working committee of volunteers
- from the various standards committees. The second is a policy committee
- initially consisting of Alan G. Nemeth, USENIX Association President,
- John S. Quarterman, USENIX Association Director and the Association's
- Institutional Representative to the IEEE P1003 committee, Shane McCarron,
- IEEE P1003.1 Secretary, and Grover Righter.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 27
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