From NickS@webvangroup.com Thu Feb 24 18:53:36 2000 Received: from hq-exchange-01.isrworld.com (ws-209-233-228-35.webvangroup.com [209.233.228.35]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA74034 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:53:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from NickS@webvangroup.com) Received: by hq-exchange-01.isrworld.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:53:32 -0800 Message-ID: From: Nick Stoughton To: "'sc22wg15@dkuug.dk'" Subject: RREV: May meeting announcement, draft agenda and preliminary logi stics Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:53:26 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Please find attached the meeting announcement, preliminary logistics and draft agenda for the May 2000 meeting of the Austin Group; as usual, the SC22/WG15 Raporteur Group for Revising POSIX (RREV) will be meeting in conjunction. May I also take this opportunity of reminding all member bodies that the deadline for two of the actions from the last WG15 plenary in Montreal is this meeting; please submit (via email) your MB Action Item reports in advance of the start of this meeting (or preferably by the date I gave earlier, 2000-03-10). 9907-15 (Member Bodies): Provide input to REV on any implementation of alternative command syntax for the "dd" command. 9907-21 (Member Bodies): Review and comment regarding Style Issues arising from draft 1 of the Austin Group revision document. -- Nick Stoughton Webvan Group Inc Usenix Standards Liaison 650 627 3277 510 366 6176 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Josey [mailto:ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 5:39 AM To: austin-group@opengroup.org Subject: May meeting announcement, draft agenda and preliminary logistics All The fourth meeting of the Austin Group will be held in Europe, in the Open Group offices in Reading, UK. We will have full internet access (2Megabit internet link, thin ethernet and twisted pair), speaker phone, hispeed postscript printer, copier and LCD projector facilities. There is a $120 registration fee to cover refreshments and lunches. The draft meeting agenda and preliminary logistics information are included below and are now available on the web at URL http://www.opengroup.org/austin/agenda.html Online registration is now open at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/register.html Further logistics information including hotel booking information and a block room rate will be circulated next week. regards Andrew ---------------------------------------------------- Joint Meeting Agenda (DRAFT) Joint Meeting Agenda 15-19 May 2000 Reading, UK. The fourth meeting of the Austin Group is on May 15th through May 19th in Reading, UK. The meeting is being hosted by The Open Group. A file of logistics and hotel information is available at http://www.opengroup.org/logistics.html . A block reservation will be made at the Holiday Inn and details posted early next week. REGISTRATION Please register in advance for the meeting at https://www.opengroup.org/austin/register.html Meeting Goals The goal of this meeting is to review the draft three Common Specifications. The bulk of the meeting will be spent doing issue resolution based on Aardvark comments submitted during the review period. Meeting Preparation Please bring electronic copies of the draft Common Specifications (available from this web site). Please also 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 earlier Austin Group meetings ; these documents are available in the online document register. Meeting Format The meeting will consist of full time plenary sessions. Meeting Times It is anticipated that the meeting will run as follows: Monday May 15th 10am -> 5pm Tuesday May 16th 9am -> 5pm Wednesday May 17th 9am -> 5pm Thursday May 18th 9am -> 5pm Friday May 19th 9am -> 2pm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary Agenda Items 1. Administrivia o Introductions o Approval of Agenda o Approval of Minutes o Review of Action Items 2. Procedures Update - the purpose here is not to debate the procedures but to inform. o JPC Procedures o Committee Draft development procedures 3. Identification of Organizational Reps 4. Status Reports o Austin Group Status - presentation by Andrew Josey o POSIX Status .1a/.2b status, other amendments? Impact of .1a/.2b on Austin schedule o IEEE/TOG Status o C9x Status o Networking Status (XTI/Sockets) o Joint Procedures Committee Status 5. Old business 6. New business o XBD Aardvark o XCU Aardvark o XSH Aardvark o C9x Discussion o Discussion on any issues 7. Consent list 8. Issues list 9. Action Item Review 10. Draft & Meeting Schedule 11. AOB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you have comments or additions to the Agenda please send them to Andrew Josey (ajosey@opengroup.org). Joint Meeting Logistics The Austin Group 15-19 May 2000 Reading, UK Hosted by The Open Group LOCATION The Open Group Apex Plaza, Forbury Road Reading, RG1 1AX United Kingdom Tel: +44 1189508311 Please sign in at the security desk and proceed to The Open Group on the 2nd floor on the side of Apex Plaza closest to the Railway station. You can contact Andrew Josey on 01189508311 x2250 or by cellphone at 07974207557. Apex Plaza is a large pink building situated next to the Reading Railway station. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotels (Please note that we will circulate information next week on a block reservation for the hotels) The Holiday Inn Tel: +44 (0)118 925 9988 Fax: +44 (0)118 939 1665 This hotel is 15 minutes walk away from Reading Station and Apex Plaza, or if you have bags, a short taxi ride. If you are driving, you can find the hotel by looking for the two bridges which cross the Thames in Reading. The hotel is beside "*Caversham* Bridge", which is the western one, on the route signposted "Henley and Caversham A4155". Apex Plaza is close to the other bridge, on the route confusingly signposted to "Henley and Caversham (A4155)". The parentheses, which mean "leading to", are the only difference! >From the Holiday Inn, the most pleasant way to walk to The Open Group takes 15 minutes: Go down to the river and under the road to the right, then along the towpath. Just before the next bridge, turn right, and you will soon see Apex Plaza beyond the Railway line. Go under the railway bridge and round to the far side: The Open Group is in the corner nearest the railway station, on the 2nd floor. The Renaissance Tel: +44 (0)118 958 6222 Fax: +44 (0)118 959 7842 Toll free (within UK): 0800 181737 This hotel is 10 minutes walk away from Reading Station and Apex Plaza, or if you have bags, a short taxi ride. It is situated on the western side of the town centre, on the Oxford Road. If you decide to walk from the station (where the Railair bus also stops), cross the road in front of the Station into Station Road (you are now walking south). Continue across the next road (Friar Street) and the road you are on becomes Victoria Street. You emerge onto a pedestrian mall (Broad Street). Turn right (west) here. Cross West Marys Butts and walk past the Broad Street Mall on your left. The Renaissance is shortly after this, on the left. Apex Plaza from the hotel: If you need to find Apex Plaza on your own, it is the large pink building adjacent to the Railway Station. From the hotel, the walk there will take 15 minutes: Turn right out of the hotel forecourt, walking east along Broad Street. Pass the Broad Street Mall on your right. Cross West Mary's Butts into the Broad Street pedestrian mall. Turn left (north) at Victoria Street and walk up two blocks (crossing Friar Street; on the north side of Friar Street, it becomes Station Road). You will emerge in front of Reading Station. If you turn right here, there is a pedestrian crossing a few yards along. You will see Apex Plaza on the right. More hotels in Berkshire are given at the web site of Berkshire & Surrey - Hotels & B&B's. A country-wide directory is also available at Smooth Hound's Hotel & Guest House Directory . Alternative ones we have used and have had good reviews on are: Marriott Courtyard Bath Road Padworth 01189 714411 75pounds per night Rainbow Corner Caversham 01189 588140 65-75pounds per night The Red Lion Henley 01491 572161 95-100 pounds per night ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From London Airports Taxi Cabs from the rank at London's Heathrow Airport will cost you 50 pounds or more. Much cheaper, there are two "RAILAIR" buses to Reading Railway station every hour. The service is scheduled to take between an hour and 90 minutes, depending on Terminal and time of day, but it costs about 8 pounds, and the stop is right outside the The Open Group office. (See above) Gatwick Airport is considerably further, but there are direct trains which take 80 - 90 minutes to Reading Station. The single fare is about 12 pounds; return fares are less than double that, but vary depending on the day you travel. Don't hire a car unless you really want to explore the countryside: Car rental in the UK is expensive, and you will still have to walk from the car park anyway! If you do drive, the British Rail Car Park is slightly more convenient than the Garrard Street Car Park, especially if it is raining: you can get to the office entirely under cover by going "through" the station. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eating Out Plenty of choice, (especially in the pubs out in the Chilterns) but we only dare a few suggestions: Just over the road from the Holiday Inn is "Chronicles Riverside Bar and Restaurant" - they have a pretty good menu, the restaurant has a view of the river, and it also has a fair selection of wines available (by the glass or bottle) at the bar. A few minutes walk down the Caversham Road towards Reading is the Standard Tandoori Nepalese Restaurant - a rather forbidding exterior, but the food has an excellent reputation. For Italian food, look for "Topo Gigio" or the more casual "Dolce Vita", both upstairs from Kings Walk, off King's Street, at the west end of Broad Street, in the middle of Reading. (20 minutes walk) And for "any time of day" convenience, there are TWO American restaurants within easy walking distance of the hotels! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sightseeing, etc. The Holiday Inn is right beside the River Thames, so if you would like to run alongside it, bring your jogging kit. And your swimming gear! (We are only half kidding: the river would be cold, but both this hotel (and the Renaissance) do have a tiny pool.) If you want to walk for an hour or so, and you don't like rivers, go to the Abbey Ruins. (See above, or ask the hotel staff. If they tell you the ruins all work at The Open Group, please ignore them!). It is very easy to go to London from Reading: many trains take under 25 minutes to Paddington. For evenings and Weekends, an "Off-peak Travelcard" costs about 10 pounds per day, and covers the return journey to London, plus unrestricted travel on the Underground and London Buses when you get there. You can also easily reach Henley On Thames, Oxford, Windsor, or Bath by train. ----- 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 The XNS 5v2 Specification is at http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/c808.htm