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Subject: cooperatio between PASC, ToG and WG15

How to cooperate between PASC, ToG and WG15.

It would be beneficial to the POSIX standardization process
if the resources used in differnt organizations could be pooled.

I will hereby propose that it is tried to pool resources
from PASC, WG145 and ToG, by having common meetings in one room
called by all the 3 organizations..

All technical discussions should be done between all the 
participants, and then when formal decisions are to be taken,
the decision rules of each of the participating organizations.
There should be one chair elected for the meeting, and one
secretary, and one drafting committee for the combined meeting.
This would ensure an open organization of the standardization
process for Open Systems.

This proposal should be readily implementable, as it does
not need any change in the formal operations of the
organizations involved. All that is needed is coordination
of the meeting calls. 

The proposal has merits in that no organization is losing
influence, and that the process can be as open as possible. 

One could also invite other organizations, possibly on a
time-by-time basis, that are producing standards relevant for
open systems, for example the ISO C and C++ WGs, with their APIs
that are also part of the Single Unix specification, or the ISO
i18n WG, that are producing locale formats and APIs compatible
with the POSIX specifications. 

One important point to bear in mind is that we should not fight
eachother, but rather join our forces in producing quality
standards in a timely manner. Jim Isaak once pointed out that
because of a failiour to establish a GUI standard, the Open 
Systems movement may have lost a business opportunity of a market
estimated to be worth between 1 and 100 billion USD.
Favourizing one specific standardization organization, like
ToG, could lead to much internal power struggle from the other
organizations involved.