From ajosey@tamarix.rdg.opengroup.org Wed Jan 27 15:36:46 1999 Received: from mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org (mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org [192.153.166.4]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA04776 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:36:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ajosey@tamarix.rdg.opengroup.org) Received: by mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org; id AA29942; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:37:22 GMT Received: from tamarix.rdg.opengroup.org [192.153.166.189] by mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org via smtpd V1.26 (98/11/23 13:59:56) for ; Wed Jan 27 14:37 GMT 1999 Received: (from ajosey@localhost) by tamarix.rdg.opengroup.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA00783; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:32:40 GMT Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:32:40 GMT From: Andrew Josey Message-Id: <990127143238.ZM782@tamarix.rdg.opengroup.org> Reply-To: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey) X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: austin-group@opengroup.org, pasc-gen@pasc.org, sc22wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: Preliminary Joint Meeting Agenda Cc: ogtgbase@rdg.opengroup.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi All A draft meeting agenda is attached. If you have comments or additions to the Agenda please send them to Andrew Josey (ajosey@opengroup.org) as soon as possible. regards Andrew ______________________________________________________ Joint Meeting Agenda 2-4 March 1999 Menlo Park, California, USA The second meeting of the Austin Group is occuring on March 2nd through March 4th in Menlo Park California. The meeting is being hosted by Sun Microsystems and The Open Group. A file of logistics and hotel information will be available shortly on http://www.opengroup.org/austin/logistics.html. Meeting Goals The goal of this meeting is to produce enough editing instructions for the production of draft one of the Common Specifications. It is anticipated that draft one will be available in June 1999, so that a review can take place during the latter part of June, and issue resolution to occur at the July 1999 meeting to be held in Montreal, Canada. Meeting Preparation Please bring with you paper copies of the base documents for use as reference material at the meeting. Some of the materials will also be available in electronic form on a reference CD-ROM. Please familiarise yourself with the documents produced from Austin-1, these documents are available in the online document register. Meeting Format The meeting will consist of a plenary and breakout sessions. Three breakout groups will consider the contents of particular volumes, produce a proposed structure plan and then bring that back to the plenary for discussion. Meeting times It is anticipated that the meeting will run from 9am until 5pm each day Tuesday March 2nd 9am -> 5pm (*) Wednesday March 3rd 9am -> 5pm (**) Thursday March 4th 9am -> 5pm (*) Note: On Tuesday evening a group of us will go to the Linux World Conference in San Jose to catch the keynote from Linus Torvalds (at 6:30pm). (**) Note: On Wednesday morning, breakout groups will be meeting and the group will not meet in plenary until 11:30am. This also allows some of us to attend a session (on the Linux Standard Base) at the Linux conference on the wednesday morning (9:00-10:15). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Agenda Items 1. Administrivia Introductions Approval of Agenda Approval of Minutes Review of Action Items 2. Status Reports POSIX Status IEEE/TOG Status Joint Procedures Committee Status 3. Procedures 4. New business 4.1 What if .2b fails ? 4.2 What about projects that fail at 12/31 ? 98-01-04 4.3 Cross book references - is it important to have the ability to revise each book independently - if so we need to structure the doc accordingly - this is a question we need to consider ? 5. Break-out groups. Split into Break-out groups to consider contents of volumes. Working meeting to break out into 3 or 4 subgroups (one for each volume, [4 if we include the rationale]) and produce a document structure plan for that volume. 6. Discussion and approval of structure plans for each volume. 7. Consideration of what can be merged into D1 (i.e. what is ready today) .1a D16 , very few funcs not already in Single UNIX , so this will require a technical parse for differences 2b - a lot of material, symlinks, vi/ex, pax from existing .1 and .2 : - Portability considerations - Any normative parts of POSIX not covered in the Base specs. Parse thru for Terminology changes Interpretations /corrigenda - straightforward for TOG corrigenda/ resolutions, but will require more work for PASC interpretations. Removal of obsolescense / legacy Identification of alternative behaviors in the specification and consideration for whether one can now be mandated (instead of the either or ) Integration of .13 feature groups. What about POSIX version, and version identifiers for the symbolic constants in 2-10 ----- Andrew Josey The Open Group Austin Group Chair Apex Plaza,Forbury Road, Email: a.josey@opengroup.org Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England Tel: +44 118 9508311 ext 2250 Fax: +44 118 9500110 OSF/1, Motif, UNIX and the "X" device are registered trademarks in the US and other countries, and IT DialTone and The Open Group are trademarks of The Open Group.