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- [ These Standards Updates are published after each IEEE 1003
- meeting, and are commissioned by the USENIX Association.
- See Part 1 for contact information. -mod ]
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- An update on UNIX|= Standards Activities - Part 9
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- POSIX 1003.3 Update
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- November 18, 1988
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- Shane P. McCarron, NAPS International
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- 1003.3 - Testing and Verification
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- This POSIX working group met along with the others in
- Honolulu in October. The agenda included a status report on
- NIST activities, review of previously assigned action items,
- developing a strategy for future work with other P1003
- (POSIX) working groups, revision of Draft 7.1 document, and
- assigning new action items.
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- Roger Martin (NIST* & P1003.3 Chair) gave a status report on
- the current NIST FIPS** and their Conformance Testing
- Policies for the POSIX FIPS. He stated that this "Initial"
- POSIX FIPS has been approved and they intend to revise the
- FIPS now that the P1003.1 Standard is finalized. The NIST
- Test Suite, PCTS, has been provided to NTIS (National
- Technical Information Service) for public distribution at a
- price of $2500 and is being distributed since September 5,
- 1988. Its distribution was awaiting FIPS approval. Roger
- Martin also presented a proposed schedule for a series of
- Application Portability Workshops sponsored by NIST. He
- described a workshop that had taken place in September 1988
- covering Shell & Tools, System Administration and X Windows.
- One of the areas to be covered in a future Application
- Portability Profile FIPS and workshop include the Terminal
- Interface Extension. The workshops are intended for
- implementors and users.
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- The remainder of the meeting concentrated on rewriting and
- restructuring the Draft 7.1 document, including test
- assertions.
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- __________
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- |= UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and
- other countries.
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- * NIST was formerly the National Bureau of Standards, NBS
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- ** FIPS is Federal Information Processing Standard
- developed by NIST
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- During the week of meetings one small group of Test
- Assertion Reviewers continued to update
- the 1003.3 Draft 7.1 assertions.
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- Two other small groups concentrated on rewriting and
- restructuring 1003.3 Draft 7.1 document. One group's
- emphasis was the development of a 1003.3 Generic Test Method
- chapters (i.e. terminology, testing levels, generic PCTS
- output). The second group's emphasis was in developing
- 1003.1 specific Test Method sections.
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- The P1003.3 group is gearing up for balloting this standard
- in early 1989. Each P1003.3 member is part of the "mock"
- ballot group, identifying and formulating any possible
- objections.
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- The group defined the following ballot schedule:
- 11/18/88 1003.3 Draft 8.0 "MOCK" BALLOT
- 12/31/88 "MOCK" BALLOT CLOSED
- 1/9-13/89 REVIEW "MOCK" BALLOT RESULTS AT NEXT MEETING
- 2/15/89 1003.3 Draft 9.0 IEEE BALLOT
- 4/3/89 1003.3 BALLOT CLOSED
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- Future work of the P1003.3 committee was also addressed.
- The P1003.3 Working Group wants to influence the other P1003
- Working Groups into writing testable standards. To achieve
- this, a liaison program will be implemented to have members
- from P1003.3 working in a liaison fashion in each of the
- other working groups.
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- The P1003.3 working group Project Authorization (PAR) will
- need to be revised in order for the group to develop an
- overall Test Method standard and the development of specific
- standards for each appropriate 1003 activity.
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- The Watchdog committee contact for 1003.3 is Doris Lebovits.
- She can be reached at:
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- Doris Lebovits
- AT&T
- Rm 5-211
- 190 River Rd,
- Summit, NJ 07901
- lebovits@attunix.att.com
- attunix!lebovits
- +1 (201) 522-6586
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- Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 45
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