From ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org Thu Jan 18 23:48:04 2001 Received: from mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org (mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org [192.153.166.4]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id XAA81161 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:48:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org) Received: by mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org; id AA26661; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:46:48 GMT Received: from unknown [208.54.4.120] by smtp.opengroup.org via smtpd V1.38 (00/07/25 13:18:13) for ; Thu Jan 18 22:46 GMT 2001 Received: (from ajosey@localhost) by skye.rdg.opengroup.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) id WAA02470 for sc22wg15@dkuug.dk; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:45:27 GMT Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:45:27 GMT From: Andrew Josey Message-Id: <1010118224527.ZM2469@skye.rdg.opengroup.org> Reply-To: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey) X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: The Open Group Liaison Report Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Title: The Open Group Liaison Report SC22/WG15 N___ Date: 2001-01-18 Source: Andrew Josey, The Open Group Action: for information This is a brief status update for the Austin Group. The group last met in October 2000 and are progressing the combined revision of ISO 9945-1, ISO 9945-2 and the Single UNIX Specification V3 (see http://www.opengroup.org/austin for details). Much activity occurs electronically via the web and on the mailing lists. A comprehensive set of comments on the ISO ballot was submitted through the UK delegation to ISO for draft 4 of the joint specification. Draft 5 is now available. This is the first recirculation of the complete draft of the specification. Concurrent IEEE balloting and The Open Group Review is taking place on this draft. Draft 5 totals some 3682 pages. The eight week review period for draft 5 completes at 8am UK time on February 15th 2001. A plenary review meeting is being held during the week commencing March 5th to process the comments arising from the Draft 5 review period. Comments should be sent to the review reflector and use the aardvark comment format (see http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/format.html for more information). ----- Andrew Josey The Open Group Director, Server Platforms Apex Plaza,Forbury Road, Email: a.josey@opengroup.org Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England Tel: +44 118 9508311 ext 2250 Fax: +44 118 9500110 Mobile: +44 774 015 5794 ** The Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum: http://www.opengroup.org/rtforum/ ** February 6-8 2001 San Jose, CA ** Call for Papers now open for Berlin, April 2001