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- From: pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson)
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- Subject: POSIX.0: The Guide to Open Systems Environments
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 14:30:15 -0700
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- Submitted-by: pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson)
-
- USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
- Stephen R. Walli <stephe@usenix.org>, Report Editor
- POSIX.0: The Guide to Open Systems Environments
-
- Kevin Lewis <klewis@gucci.enet.dec.com> reports on the July 13-17,
- 1992 meeting in Chicago, IL:
-
- First, let me indulge in some self-aggrandizement before going into
- the details about the POSIX.0 work. A little over a year ago, I
- projected that the guide document would be going into formal ballot in
- July 1992. (I am the co- chair of the working group and have a stake
- in this!) As of the writing of this report, July 16, 1992, the POSIX.0
- guide has been sent out for formal ballot by the IEEE. I must add
- that this would not have been possible without a core of dedicated
- people within the group, acting as section leaders.
-
- As for the work of this group at the July meeting in Chicago, there
- were two major areas of activity. The first was the development of
- the Guide document rationale. The rationale captures the group's
- memory on those issues it felt were significant and which it felt
- might surface during the formal ballot process. The audiences for
- this document will be the section leaders to assist them during ballot
- resolution, and future members of the working group who might need to
- understand the thinking of the group on these issues.
-
- This document was completed during the meeting and will be available
- to the group prior to the October meeting in Utrecht during which the
- group will be resolving ballots.
-
- The other major area of activity were discussions around the group's
- co-ordination with other standards organizations at the ISO level.
- The group is specifically concerned with WG15, the WG15 Rapporteur
- Group for Coordination of Profile Activities (RGCPA), and SC22. We
- have formally requested that the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
- to WG15 seek review and comment of the formal ballot draft by WG15 and
- SC22. In addition, we asked the TAG to notify the WG15 RGCPA that
- several members of POSIX.0 would like to participate in their Utrecht
- meeting in October. The formal ballot draft, along with a cover
- letter highlighting questions for consideration during the review, was
- passed to the TAG.
-
- Finally, for those who are interested, the POSIX.0 Ballot Group
- composition is:
-
- ----------------------------------------
- | Class Number Percentage|
- |---------------------------------------+
- | Academic 3 3.49%|
- | General Interest 23 26.74%|
- | Producer 24 27.91|
- | user 36 41.86%|
- ----------------------------------------
- | Total 86 100%|
- ----------------------------------------
-
- We've gotten over the first two hurdles of establishing a balanced
- ballot group and getting our document out on time. Stay tuned to find
- out what the response is....
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 23
-