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- From: <jsh@usenix.org>
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- An Update on UNIX* and C Standards Activities
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- January 1990
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- USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
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- Jeffrey S. Haemer, Report Editor
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- IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods Update
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- Doris Lebovits <lebovits@attunix.att.com> reports on the January 8-12,
- 1990 meeting in New Orleans, LA:
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- Dot three's job is to do test methods for all of the other 1003
- standards. This was the working group's fifteenth meeting. We
- reviewed the ballot status of P1003.1 test methods, worked on P1003.2
- test methods, and created a steering committee.
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- Review of ballot status and Dot two verification
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- The P1003.3 standard will consist of several parts: Part I is generic
- test methods, and part II is test methods for measuring P1003.1
- conformance, including test assertions. Part III of P1003.3 will
- contain test methods and assertions for measuring P1003.2 conformance.
- As other P1003 standards evolve, they will be covered as separate
- parts in the P1003.3 standard.
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- Each day was divided into two sessions: mornings, we did technical
- review of parts I and II, afternoons were spent writing assertions for
- part III. AT&T, NIST, OSF, Mindcraft, IBM, DEC, HP, Data General,
- Cray Research, Unisys, Perennial and Unisoft Ltd. were represented.
- [Editor's complaint: I see no user representation at all.]
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- It took twelve meetings of the previous P1003.3 working group to
- prepare the draft that is now balloting. The technical review for the
- Draft 10 ballot was completed. Draft 11 was re-circulated late
- February 1990 and closed March 23, 1990. The balloting group is
- approximately ninety members. X/OPEN submitted a list of assertions
- for P1003.1a. This list was included as an appendix to Draft 11.
- Balloters were expected to review this appendix as part of their
- ballot. We anticipate an approved P1003.3 standard in the third
- quarter of 1990.
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- This is the third meeting for developing a verification standard
- against the P1003.2 standard. The P1003.2 assertion writing and
- review were done in small groups. Some of the assertions were based
- upon P1003.2 Draft 9.
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- * UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and other
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- January 1990 Standards Update IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods
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- A steering committee and some new officers
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- The chair, Roger Martin, instigated the creation of a test-methods
- steering committee to help alleviate the increasing dot-three work
- load all the other, proliferating groups are creating. The committee
- will coordinate the activities of all test-methods groups, monitor the
- groups' conformance to test methods, and write and approve Project
- Authorization Requests (PARs). Membership will be dynamic, limited to
- four to six, and new members will be chosen based on long term
- commitment, new ideas, and technical/managerial skills. Roger
- suggested an initial makeup -- Roger Martin (NIST, Steering Committee
- Chair), Anita Mundkur (HP), Andrew Twigger (Unisoft), Bruce Weiner
- (Mindcraft), and Lowell Johnson (Unisys) -- and the working group
- approved. It's a non-controversial mix of established P1003.3
- members.
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- The Standards Executive Committee (SEC) has approved both the
- committee and its membership. Their first assignment is to document
- procedures.
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- In addition, new officers were chosen for the P1003.2 Test Methods
- activities. Ray Wilkes, of Unisys, is Chair, Jim Moe, of Cray
- Research, is Co-chair, Lowell Johnson of Unisys is Secretary, and
- Andrew Twigger of Unisoft Ltd is Technical Editor.
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- January 1990 Standards Update IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 57
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