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- Submitted-by: stephe@usenix.org (Stephen R. Walli)
-
- Kevin Lewis <klewis@gucci.enet.dec.com> reports on the October 23-24,
- 1992 meeting in Utrecht, NL:
-
- The IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems - Standards
- Subcommittee (TCOS-SS) forwards POSIX documents through an ANSI
- technical advisory group to ISO Working Group 15 (WG15) for approval
- as international standards. WG15 has a number of rapporteur groups,
- which are small groups of experts on various ISO POSIX related topics.
-
- This was the third meeting of the Rapporteur Group on Co- ordination
- of Profile Activities (RGCPA). It was my first. The meeting lasted a
- day and a half. There were actually more observers in the room than
- members. About 15-18 people attended, of which 75% were IEEE POSIX
- attendees. Seeing all the familiar faces from a week of IEEE POSIX
- meetings underscored the high percentage of overlap between the IEEE
- and ISO POSIX working groups.
-
- The work of this Rapporteur group is to co-ordinate profiling
- activities that would be of interest to WG15 as follows:
-
- - the process of addressing user requirements for profile
- harmonization,
-
- - the development of the appropriate approach to sub-setting WG15
- standards within profiles,
-
- - the treatment within profiles of the options that exist within a
- standard that is part of the profile.
-
- Recognizing that there are other organizations dealing with profile
- issues, the group put forward a resolution to WG15 that the TCOS
- Profile Steering Committee and X/Open be encouraged to establish
- Category C liaison with WG15 RGCPA.
-
- Reflecting back on this meeting, it seemed to me that the real purpose
- of this group is to serve as a radar, seeking out any and all profile
- activities anywhere in the globe that would be pertinent to the work
- of WG15 and SC22. From my own vantage point, it appeared to be
- accomplishing his purpose.
-
- The next meeting of this group will be on May 10-11, 1993 in
- Heidelburg, Germany.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 13
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-