From rabin@osf.org Tue Jul 18 05:36:05 1995 Received: from postman.osf.org by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA15718 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:38:03 +0200 Received: from bubba.osf.org (bubba.osf.org [130.105.4.59]) by postman.osf.org (8.6.9/8.6.x) with SMTP id JAA01047; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:36:07 -0400 From: Paul Rabin Received: by bubba.osf.org (5.65/OSF 1.0) id AA24447; Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:36:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:36:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9507181336.AA24447@bubba.osf.org> To: isaak@ljo.dec.com, keld@dkuug.dk Subject: 9945-1 LIS Cc: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Keld, Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting the LIS sources to you. I am on vacation this week, and at an X/Open Technical Manager's meeting next week, and will not be back in my office until July 31. One coordination issue that we need to deal with in bringing outside volunteer effort into the IEEE development process, is IEEE ballot resolution. THe current status of 9945-1 LIS is that a complete draft has been developed (complete with respect to the scope of IEEE 1003.1) and has been through the first round of official IEEE balloting, and has gotten stuck in the middle of ballot resolution. Nearly all of the objections raised have been discussed with the objectors (where necessary), but the draft has not been revised, and the usual ballot database has not been created and updated to record the resolutions. What exists is a heavily annotated (by hand) paper copy of 9945-1 LIS, and a partially annotated (by hand) set of paper copies of the ballot comments and objections. I have electronic copies of some, but not all, of the ballots. So the next step is to produce a new draft for a) IEEE recirculation ballot, and b) CD registration. This draft must incorporate resolutions to the comments and objections from the first ballot, and may incorporate additional enhancements, as long as we can be confident that these will not reduce ballot group consensus. It should be possible to get 75% approval on the recirculation ballot, and we would probably need one further recirculation ballot to get securely above 75%. Of course, two amendments to 9945-1 have already been (or are about to be) approved in JTC1, and it is likely that two or three more will be approved and 9945-1 subject to a revision, by the time that 9945-1 LIS is ready for DIS registration. If there is a requirement for the scope of the LIS to catch up with 9945-1, then we have a problem. The IEEE 1003.1 working group has promised to allocate some time during the January, 1996 POSIX meeting for LIS development. I assume that it will not be possible for you to attend. I think that there will be a later meeting in 1996 held in Europe, but I don't have the details with me. [Jim ?] -Paul