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- Submitted-by: nick@usenix.org (Nicholas M. Stoughton)
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- USENIX Standards Report
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- Nicholas M. Stoughton <nick@usenix.org>, Report Editor
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- POSIX.0: POSIX Guide
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- Kevin Lewis <klewis@gucci.ent.dec.com> reports on the April
- 19-23, 1993 meeting in Irvine, Ca.:
-
- Let me say right up front that this was quite a productive
- week for the group. Our primary goal was to achieve in
- excess of 75% in our affirmative ballots so as to move into
- recirculation prior to the next meeting in July. The group
- was successful in achieving this goal. The chronology is as
- follows:
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- + initial number of affirmative ballots received was 28
- out of 58, placing the percent affirmative at 48%
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- + the group converted 7 ballots to affirmative prior to
- the April meeting
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- + the group converted 13 ballots to affirmative during
- the April meeting
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- + this places the current percent affirmative at 82% (48
- out of 58)
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- The issue of public specifications, expected to be a highly
- significant issue, proved to be exactly that for only a
- small number of balloters (five out of 58, three of whom
- could be considered negotiable).
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- The POSIX.0 group conducted a Birds-of-a-feather (BOF)
- session on this issue of public specifications to ensure
- that any balloter and any one else with a concern in this
- area had an opportunity have a dialogue with Dot Zero to
- ensure an effective exchange of information. Our main
- concern prior to this BOF was that the way POSIX.0 sees
- public specs and their use and the way everyone else sees
- this issue might be at odds.
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- It became evident after the BOF that the understanding on
- this was mutual. In fact, there were a very small number of
- people (3 out of about 20 that attended) who had any major
- concern with this topic.
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- The ISO WG15 Rapporteur and the SC22 Secretariat
- representative were present during the BOF. I queried them
- on whether or not there was any concern expressed on this
- issue at their respective levels within ISO. They both
- indicated that each group was aware of the presence of this
- topic in the POSIX.0 guide and no one had expressed any
- concern.
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- Given that POSIX.0 has reached the goal enabling a
- recirculation, this will be coordinated with the IEEE with
- the objective of having this next phase start prior to the
- July meeting in Denver. The group will be in recirculation
- during the July meeting. So our discussions will focus on
- possible future projects, to include a guide in the area of
- Transaction Processing and an IEEE video conference that
- would serve as a tutorial about the use of the guide.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 31, Number 44
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