From elliott@ibm.de Tue Feb 28 12:13:05 1995 Received: from mail.Germany.EU.net by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA24700 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:14:39 +0100 Received: by mail.Germany.EU.net with SMTP (8.6.5:29/EUnetD-2.5.1.d) via EUnet id LAA19035; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:16:18 +0100 Received: from keplerx.aixmkt.germany.ibm.com by prosecco.munich.ibm.de (4.03afxG1.2) id AA12934; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:14:06 +0100 Received: from poseidon.aixmkt.germany.ibm.com by kepler.aixmkt.germany.ibm.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA10506; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:11:48 +0100 Received: by poseidon.aixmkt.germany.ibm.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA24853; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:13:05 +0100 Message-Id: <9502281013.AA24853@poseidon.aixmkt.germany.ibm.com> To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: AFNOR Note to WG15 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 11:13:05 +0100 From: Ron.Elliott@ibm.de, AIX.Product.Marketing@ibm.de, IBM Germany X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 I agree with the comments of AFNOR. Here in Germany it is very rare that anyone ever mentions the word POSIX in RFP's. The govermental agencies all request compliance to X/Open and already SPEC1170 is creeping into several RFP's. In several cases it is the same old story, people write something down as a requirement since they have read about it in the press or some consultant has told them to ask for it. They have no idea what it brings them. However with the emergence of SPEC1170, a lot of the "holes" which have long been discussed in various profile group meetings, have been plugged, so we are once again left with discussing what to do with "public specifications" as against ISO standards. In the past X/Open has been "forced" to change their XPG to match emerging standards (1003.1 and 1003.2). I'm not sure that we can expect such moves in the future if there are incompatibilities between POSIX and XPG since the number of people running XPG compliant systems is rapidly increasing adn they would be less than willing to change to something without it brought them major benefits. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the matter. I'm sure that we have much to discuss in Enschede. See you all there.