1)    Opening of meeting.

 The meeting was called to order at 09:08 by the chair, Professor Saito.

 1.1)    Welcome from host.

 Mr. Akio Saitoh, senior advisor to and former secretary general of IPSJ/ITSCJ, welcomed WG15 to Japan and extended all hospitality to the group.

 1.2)    Introductions and roll call of technical experts.

 

Canada	Patric Dempster
Denmark	Keld Simonsen
Japan	Toshinori Numata HoD
	Yasunori Hiratsuka
	Kazuo Ito
	Akio Kido
	Masahiro Morita
United Kingdom	Dave Cannon  HoD
	Martin Kirk
	Jeremy Tucker
United States	Roger Martin  HoD
	Jay Ashford
	Andy Bihain
	John Hill

 1.2.1) Verify and approve PASC HoD distribution list (Barry Needham).

Reference: N4763
 N4763 is the current mailing list used by IEEE PASC to distribute IEEE drafts and SEC minutes to the WG15 HoDs.  This list does not contain all HoDs as identified in SD-6, just the ones who responded to the positive ping after the 9305 WG15 meeting.  Action item 9405-01 on Barry Needham to perform another positive address confirmation on the HoDs and update the PASC mailing list as appropriate.

 1.2.2) Review and approve WG15 mailing list (Convenor).

Reference: WG15 SD-6
 SC27 Liaison has been added to SD-6.  WG15 attendees are requested to review this list and eMail any corrections to the Convenor.

 1.3) Selection of drafting committee.

 Mr. John Hill, chair United States,
 Mr. Masahiro Morita Japan,
 Mr. Keld Simonsen Denmark  and
 Mr. Dave Cannon United Kingdom
  volunteered as the drafting committee.

 1.4) Adoption of agenda.

Reference: WG15 N433r2 11/May/94
 The agenda was adopted after the addition of 4 documents provided by RIN.

 1.5) Approval of minutes.

Reference: WG15 N434
 The minutes were approved as distributed in N434.

 1.6) Action items and National Body reports.

Reference: National body reports (WG15 numbers)  CA [N463], DK [N474], JP [N468], NL [N464], NZ [N467], UK [N458], US [N482], Convenor [N453], Project editor [N], Hill [N486], Keld [N469], RGSEC [N488], Spencer [N489], RIN [N473]

9310-01 UK National Body:  To further scope the work required as defined in WG15 N347 (open action item 9305-01).

 Done.  Completed by draft NP; reference WG15 N423.  Action item 9305-02 on the Convenor to confirm that N423 has been circulated to SC22 for comment.

9310-02 Arnie Powell:  Provide a list of actions covering the open resolutions identified in WG15 N202, and the resolutions developed at Kista (open action items 9205-15, 9210-5, 9305-05).

 The response to action item 9310-14 should be used to determine if further action is needed on this item; reference N463. Closed after consideration.

9310-03 RGSEC Lead Rapporteur: Investigate liaison with EWOS re security issues and report back at WG15's next meeting (open action items 9205-53, 9210-15, 9305-07).

 Done; reference N489.

9310-04 CEN/CENELEC Liaison:  Forward contributions received in CEN/CENELEC TC 304 to WG15 (open action items 9210-26, 9305-11).

 Closed.  Further documents referenced under agenda item 2.5.13 the CEN/CENELEC liaison report.

9310-05 Japan and Canada:  Review and comment on areas of mutual interest between WG15 and SC21 contained in WG15 N324 (SC22 N1178). Forward comments to both SC21 and SC22/WG15 (open action items 9210-27, 9305-11).

 Closed.  Japan has no comments.  Canada has no resources and no further action is expected.

9310-06 RGSEC Lead Rapporteur: Identify and carry through an appropriate response to WG15 N144 (open action items 9210-31, 9305-13).

 Closed.  Overcome by events.

9310-07 SGFS Liaison:  Forward document WG15 N297 (IEEE 1003.0 Draft 15) and document WG15 N164 (IEEE 1003.18 Draft 3) to SGFS (resolution 209, open action items 9210-48, 9305-19).

 Done.  Documents have reached SGFS. This is superseded by draft 16 of 1003.0.

9310-08 SC21/WG1 and SC27 Liaison:  Forward the WG15 document N297 (IEEE 1003.0 Draft 15) submitted by the United States for review and comment to both SC21/WG1 and SC27.  Input should be requested within the time period allowed to members of the balloting group for IEEE 1003.6.  The Liaison to SC21/WG1 and SC27 are to forward the responses from SC21/WG1 and SC27 to the IEEE 1003.6 ballot resolution group in a timely manner (resolution 217, open action items 9210-58, 9305-22).

 Closed.  Superseded by events.

9310-09 Project editor:  In consultation with the United States, to report back at the next WG15 meeting on the feasibility of merging the real time extensions into 9945-1LIS before 9945-1LIS becomes an international standard taking into account the provisions that this should be done without adversely affecting the progress of the existing C-language versions of IEEE 1003.4 (Real-time extensions) and IEEE 1003.4a (Threads) (resolution 219, open action items 9210-62, 9305-23).

 Closed. Not believed to be possible.  No documents are available for such merger.

9310-10 United States:

1. Consider the LIS and language-binding interface changes necessary to handle character-oriented features as a symbol and not storage patterns for a future revision of 9945-1.

 
2. Inform SC22/WG15 of any plans for supporting such features in future revisions of all parts of the 9945 standard (resolution 226, open action items 9210-71, 9305-24)

 Open.  Status in N482. Pending response from PASC.  New action item 9405-03

9310-12 Lorraine Kevra:  Incorporate answers to the administrative questions in the SC22 Cross Language questionnaire with any other responses received from the member bodies and other SC22 WGs and to reply to JTC1/SC22 on behalf of SC22/WG15 before 1/Mar/93 (resolution 226, open action items 9210-76, 9305-24).

 Closed, reference N498.

9310-13 United States: Consider the United Kingdom contribution on a proposed new rigorously conforming conformance class (open action items 9210-77, 9305- 26).

 Open.  Status in N482. PASC acknowledges problem and is working on it. New action item 9405-04.

9310-14 Member Bodies: Review N375 to determine status and report back to the next WG15 meeting (open action item 9305-28).

 Closed.  Covered in 9310-26 & 9310-27.

9310-15 United States: Supply a copy of the latest draft of 1003.2b to WG15 for review and comment (open action item 9305-31).

 Open.  Draft 9 will be available in the August time-frame.  New action item 9405-05.

9310-16 United States: Investigate making electronic copies of draft documents available to WG15 (open action item 9305-33).

 Open.  Under discussion with IEEE.  New action item 9405-06.

9310-17 United States: Forward an appropriate copy of Amendment 1 of 9945-1:1990 (Real-time extensions) to the SC22 Secretariat for DIS processing (open action item 9305-39).

 Closed.  Final draft has been submitted to ANSI for SC22 DIS processing.

9310-18 United States: To provide a plan for incorporating into 9945-1 the additional rational regarding the use of the terms byte and character as referenced in WG15 N349 (open action item 9305-40).

 Open.  PASC SEC has been asked for response.  Electronic distribution expected in a few weeks.  New action item 9405-07.

9310-19 Project editor:  Prepare a preliminary disposition of comments for 9945-2 and circulate them in July to WG15 member bodies (open action item 9305-41).

 Open.  Comments are incorporated in coming draft of document to be distributed by June/94.  New action item 9405-08.

9310-20 RGCPA: WG15 instructs RGCPA to review WG15 N386 and report back to WG15 at its next meeting as to its potential relationship to IEEE 1003.0 (open action item 9305-52).

 Open.  Action on Convenor to request a response from RGCPA for 9405-10 before the Oct/94 meeting.  New action item 9405-09.

9310-21 Ted Backer:  Provide the WG15 Convenor with a copy of the draft of the Real-time Rapporteur group (RRG) of SC22/WG9 (Ada) proposed standard API for hard real-time services for distribution to WG15 for their review and comment (open action item 9305-53).

 Done. Action item 9405-11 on the Convenor to distribute the draft document to WG15/SC22.

9310-22 WG11 Liaison:  Forward WG15 Resolutions 93-233, 93-234 and 93-244 to WG11 (open action item 9305-56).

 Done.

9310-23 Project editor:  Notify the development body of collation weight requirements (resolution 93-230, open action item 9305-60).

 Open.  New action item 9405-12.

9310-24 Member bodies: A host for spring 1996 WG15 meeting is required. Volunteers are requested to supply an official invitation to the Convenor (open action item 9305-65).

 Done.  Denmark will provide an indentation on request. Action item 9405-13 on the Convenor to request invitation from Denmark.

9310-25 United States: Review the scope of WG15 POSIX security related items and position this work relative to the proposed program of work and terms of reference of SC21, SC18 and their working groups.  United States member body will identify any areas of overlap and report their findings back to WG15 (open action item Paris-01).

 Open.  PASC has been requested to provide a report on the subject. Documents in circulation are referenced in N482.  New action item 9405-14.

9310-26 Member bodies: Member bodies to contribute national profiles that they have developed to RIN and WG20 (open action item Paris-07).

 Open.  Denmark and Japan have made contributions and more are expected. US is done.  New action item 9405-15.  Action item 9504-16 on Canada and action item 9405-17 on the United Kingdom to provide national profiles or progress reports by Oct/94 meeting.

9310-27 Member bodies: WG15 member bodies to review and comment on the taxonomy in the EWOS Technical Guide on profiles for the OSE (EWOS/TA/81/68, WG15 N165) (open action item Rotterdam-03).

 Closed.  Overcome by events.

9310-28 Convenor:  Update WG15 (and HoD) contact information list.

 Done.  Reference SD-6, N4763 and the Convenor report.

9310-29 Closed at the Oct/93 meeting.

9310-30 United States and New Zealand: Identify the basis for partitioning of functionality contained in language bindings.

 Open.  United States forwarded to POSIX Ada group for comment. New action item 9405-18.

9310-31 Lorraine Kevra:  Determine the status/history of WG15 contributions to the report, see 9310-32 (open action item 9305-25).

 Closed.   Overcome by events.  Reference 9310-12.

9310-32 Convenor:  Put review of WG11 cross language questionnaire report and ballot summary on the WG15 Tokyo agenda for review.

 Done.  Reference agenda item 2.5.2.

9310-33 Convenor:  Query Mr. Hopper on his intentions to continue as WG13 liaison, and request a written liaison report for the next meeting.

 Done.

9310-34 Convenor:  Forward WG15 N430 to WG21 per WG15 resolution 93-247.

 Done.

9310-35 Convenor:  Issue a call for volunteers to act as liaison to WG14 (C).

 Done.  Reference N454.

9310-36 Convenor:  Issue a call for volunteers to act as liaison to WG5 (Fortran).

 Done.  Reference N454.

9310-37 Member bodies: Identify participants in the 9945-1 and 9945-2 interpretations process.  Representatives should be identified to the Convenor via eMail as soon as possible.

 United States - done.
 Denmark - done.
 UK - Closed, no volunteers.
 Canada - open.
 Japan - open.
 New Zealand - open.
 Many other countries have not responded to this action item.  New action item 9405-19.

9310-38 RIN Rapporteur:  Produce an overview of the locale definitions collected to date to WG15.

 Done.  Reference N469.

9310-39 RIN Rapporteur:  Deliver an update to the RIN terms of reference, to replace WG15 N280.  For discussion at the next meeting.

 Done. Reference N491.

9310-40 Member bodies: Review draft 8 of 2003.2 and comment to RGCT for discussion at the Oct/94 meeting.

 Closed.  Canada & UK are working on it.  RGCT has received no comments.  Action item 9405-20 on Canada and action item 9405-21 the United Kingdom to complete this work.

9310-41 United States: Deliver a report on new numbering and mapping to the old numbering for all POSIX specifications.

 Done.  Reference SD-11.

9310-42 Denmark, assisted by the Convenor:  Prepare draft amendments to the synchronization plan for review by WG15.  The draft amendment is to be distributed well in advance of the next WG15 meeting.

 Done.  Reference N474.

9310-43 Convenor:  Add review and approval of the PASC mailing list to the WG15 agenda as a standing item.

 Done.

9310-44 RIN:  Prepare a proposed response to WG20 regarding WG15 N396 for consideration by WG15 at it's next meeting.

 Closed , reference N474.  Not believed to be feasible at this time.

9310-45 RIN:  Draft a proposed WG15 response to N421 and N422 and distribute the draft to the WG15 member bodies for discussion at the next WG15 meeting.

 Closed.  No report prepared or distributed.  Not believed to be feasible at this time.

9310-46 RIN:  Develop a draft WG15 position on ISO 10646 impact on POSIX standards for consideration by WG15 no later than the October 1994 WG15 meeting.

 Open.  In progress.  New action item 9405-22.

9310-47 Member bodies: Comment to WG15 RIN draft position on ISO 10646 impact on POSIX standards.

 Open, pending 9310-46. New action item 9405-23.

9310-48 United States: Report back on option annex status and development for relevant POSIX specifications.

 Open, waiting response from PASC.  New action item 9405-24.

9310-49 United States: Transmit documents WG15 N376, N380, N435, to PASC for consideration by the appropriate PASC forums.

 Done.

9310-50 United States: Forward WG15 N304 and N379 to appropriate PASC forums for consideration in their work and report a response to issues raised in these documents.

 Done.  N488

9310-51 RGSEC: Review and comment on WG15 N304 and N379, with a report back to WG15 with a recommended response to issues raised in these documents.

 Done, reference N488.

9310-52 Convenor:  Find the ballot summary/resolution document (SC22 N1127 and N1128) and deliver to RGSEC.

 Done.

9310-53 United States: Report how they plan to address the resolution of international comments on the 9945-2 SD and DIS ballots.

 Done, reference N476.  Information provided to project editor.

9310-54 United States: Forward to SC22 the updated draft 16.1 of IEEE 1003.0 (Draft Guide to the POSIX Open System Environment) for PDTR registration.

 Done.

9310-55 Convenor:  Notify SGFS of WG15 intentions with respect to profile creation (resolution 92-257).

 Done, reference N448.

9310-56 Convenor:  Provide via eMail to WG15 the closure date for DIS 13210 ballot.

 Done.  The closure date is 27/Jul/94.

9310-57 Project editor:  Provide a draft disposition of comments on the DIS 13210 ballot as expeditiously as possible.  This draft disposition will be provided to WG15 for review and approval.

 Open.  Pending 27/Jul/94.  Action on project editor to schedule editing meeting to develop and forward disposition of comments to SC22 Secretariat 9405-26.  New action item 9405-25.

9310-58 Convenor:  Provide via eMail to WG15 the closure date for NP ballot (2003.1).

 Open.  Ballot is now open.  Close date is unknown at this time.  Action item 9405-27 on the Convenor to request NP number.  New action item 9405-26.

9310-59 Convenor:  Issue a request to WG15 member bodies to review IEEE 2003.1.

 Done, reference N454.

9310-60 Member bodies: Provide comment on SC22 N1417 to RGCT by April 1994.

 Closed.  Overcome by events.  No comments were provided.

9310-61 Japan: Provide WG15 N387r to Convenor for WG15 distribution.

 Done.

9310-62 Convenor:  Express our reservations to the SC22 liaison to ISO Guide 25 and state that we need more time to develop our input to the document JTC1 N2527.

 Done.  More time was not provided.

9310-63 RGCT:  Draft a liaison statement for WG15 consideration at the next WG15 meeting on the ISO GUIDE 25 activity and document.

 Done, reference N487.

9310-64 Project editor:  Request ITTF to assign part number 0 to IEEE 1372 LIS for JTC1 numbering.

 Open.  Request will be issued prior to June/94.  New action item 9405-28.

9310-65 Member bodies: Respond to the Convenor by 31/Jan/94 if a Secretary can be provided to the next meeting in Tokyo.

 Done.

9310-66 John Hill and Convenor:  Produce a format for a project management report.

Done, reference N486.  Action item 9405-29 for member bodies to review this format contained in N486 before the October meeting.  Action item 9405-29 on Convenor to produce a report in N486 format and distribute it for discussion as an agenda item at the Oct/94 meeting.

 2) Status, Liaison and Action Item Reports.

 2.1) Issues List (Vice Chair).

Reference: WG15 SD-3
Resolved issues should be maintained as history, but open issues should be tracked separately.  Action item 9405-31 on the Vice Chair to split list.

1.   Resolved.
2.   US believes that this should be closed.  Denmark believes that full agreement is required between SGFS and WG15 before that can happen. Vice Chair will bring this subject up during RIN report.
3.   Open.  Action item 9405-32 on the United States to query PASC on this issue and provide a report to WG15.
4.   Resolved.
5.   Open.  See N485.

 2.2) JTC1 Actions Affecting Group (Convenor).

Reference: SC22 N1566, JTC1 N2890
CEN should be invited to participate in WG15, especially with respect to TC 304.  The Vienna agreement allows this but it requires SC22 to approve the invitation.  Denmark to provide draft resolution to drafting committee.  Action item 9405-33 on the Convenor to forward resolution to SC22 for action.

 2.3) SC22 Action, Convenor report (Convenor).

Reference: SC22 N1556
SC22 has no national body willing to be Secretariat at this time.  Canada will step down in Jan/95.  National bodies are urged to consider this problem.  JTC1 might split up SC22 among several secretariats.

 2.4) Report on IEEE PASC Standards Projects (United States).

Reference: WG15 SD-11.
Points of interest on SD-11.  There are several draft standards in ballot or about to be balloted in the IEEE.

This version has the new numbering with a cross reference to the old numbering.

Action item 9405-34 on Project Editor to provide a pictorial view of how standards are managed and combined for WG15 mailing prior to the Oct/94 meeting.

As future test methods are developed (2003 series), the test method numbering will correspond to the base document number.

 2.5) Liaison Reports.

 2.5.1) WG9Ada RRG action/status (Ted Baker).

Reference: N485, WG15 N459 SC22 N1501, N1502 (Note: Available for reference at the meeting)
There are some conflicts within the Ada development bodies.  This is being resolved within these bodies. Action item 9405-35 on the United States to report on the status of issues raised in N459 at the Oct/94 meeting.

 2.5.2) WG11Cross Language (Paul Rabin).

Reference: N484
The NP ballot on a type 3 technical report has completed and the NP was approved.  The project has been assigned to WG11.
If there were to be LIS work done for POSIX it could be done in accordance with these guidelines.

 2.5.2.1) Cross language questionnaire report and ballot summary for review.

SC22 will be running a ballot on the recommendations resulting from this questionnaire in the immediate future.  This item should be retained for the Oct/94 meeting.

 2.5.3) WG13Modula 2 bindings (Keith Hopper).

Reference: WG15 .316, N477, N457
The US believes that the material referenced in WG15 .316 is outside the scope of WG15.  Paul Rabin drafted a proposed reply (N477) to the liaison statement from WG13 (N457).  The US recommends that N477 be sent to WG13 as a reply to the liaison statement.  Resolution referred to the drafting committee; draft to be prepared by Roger Martin.  Action Item 9405-36 on the Convenor to forward the liaison statement to WG13.

 2.5.4) WG20I18n (Keld Simonsen).

Reference: N466
N466 is a liaison statement from WG20 to WG15 it was approved by WG20 four weeks ago.  Discussion deferred until Mr. Keld Simonsen returns to the meeting.  This liaison refers to a WG20 policy with respect to developing a cultural convention specification standard.  WG20 would like the relevant portions of 9945 to be replaced with this standard after it is approved.  WG20 requests a close working relationship with WG15 to this end.

RIN has deferred developing a position on this pending guidance from WG15.
This is consistent with previous agreements between WG15 and WG20.

Questions: What exactly is meant by relevant?  Who decides?  Does a cultural convention include a national profile?

Action item 9405-37 on RIN to review this issue and report back to the Oct/94 WG15 meeting with recommendations with respect to what the WG15 position should be and a proposed liaison statement if required.

 2.5.5) WG21C++ (Nobuo Saito).

No written report available.  A working draft from WG21 is expected by the end of this year.  Some type of character template and locale support is expected to be included in the draft.  No action are required or liaison issues identified at this time.

 2.5.6) SGFS Special working Group on Functional Standards  (Andrew Walker).

Reference: WG15 N448, N449, N451, N456.
 TR10000-3 issues, how to map POSIX PIIs into TR10000-3.  The current SGFS plans call for the following organization:
     TR 10000-1     Profiles
     TR 10000-2     OSI Profiles
     TR 10000-3     OSE Profiles
 Unresolved issues have been delaying development of these reports. The 10000-2 and 10000-3 reports should be issued at the same time and they are due in 4 weeks. The main issue is:  What should OSE profiles include? The starting point is 1003.0.  Many national bodies commented on this and things like the XA interface are a question.  The current proposal is to take the architecture out of the TRs and follow the POSIX guide.  Could  the API be generalized so as not to exclude the XA?  The 3  regional working groups have settled on the POSIX guide.

 TT19 is an example of what the TRs would look like if this position were accepted.  Is this an adequate extension of the scope? EWOS has proposed some new definitions of API to extended the concept beyond the POSIX guide. SGFS would like to understand: what sorts of things WG15 would like to profile in the future?

 This issues was discussed in some depth during the April/94 POSIX meeting. An example:  Some applications require their own device drivers that need to be ported from system to system along with the application; this concept is supported by DDI/DKI within UNIX.  Therefore a driver/kernel interface (a PII) has an obvious impact on application portability.  Where does the application end?

 The interfaces for shared memory, pipes, semaphores are all examples of application to application interfaces.  XA could be considered as a higher level example of this.  Perhaps we need to be more explicit about the environment supporting application to application interfaces. Resolution and liaison statement to SGFS proposed to broaden the definition of what an API is, the resolution should include some of the examples included above. UK will provide initial input to drafting committee, to be reviewed Thursday morning.

 If this issue could be resolved the next major technical issue for 10000-1 and 10000-3 is conformance and the different views of conformance between OSI and POSIX.  Could WG15 review this issue in the near future?  The issue is under review at both WG15 and PASC; ISO Guide 25 has similar issues.  These are addressed to some extent in N480.

 The Convenor needs to respond to SGFS 1081 (AKA: WG15 N448) in our request expand the scope of WG15 ISPs in SC22.  Response to be reviewed with general liaison statement to SGFS.

 2.5.7) SC21/WG4 OSI software management (Martin Kirk).

 No liaison activities have taken place.  A document is incoming to WG15 and this is expected to get more active.  PASC is coordinating 1387.2 directly with WG4.

 2.5.8) SC27 Security (Person TBD)

 Action item 9405-38 on Convenor to issue a request for person to act as WG15 liaison to SC27.

 2.5.9) SC21 OSI

Reference: WG15 N447.
SC22 has received a liaison statement from SC21 which has been forwarded to WG15.  The United States proposes not including this item on future agendas unless there is a current liaison statement with an issue to be resolved.

 2.5.10) PCTE (Dave Cannon)

PCTE is completing the fast track through ISO. The DIS ballot closed and passed with comments.  The SC22 ballot resolution meeting is scheduled for 6-8/Jul/94 in Geneva.

 2.5.11) WG14C language (Keld Simonsen)

No written report available.  A PDAM for multi-byte character support and 10646 support is out. The group is about to revise the standard.

 2.5.12) WG5 Fortran

The United States proposes not including this item on future agendas unless there is a current liaison statement with an issue to be discussed.

2.5.13) CEN (Keld Simonsen).

Reference: WG15 N444
This is a working relation report, not a liaison report.  This was discussed in some depth in RIN, more information in the RIN report.

 2.6) Editor Report.

Reference: N492
No document status report available at this time.  Should this be a report on the IEEE documents at ISO.
13210 Editing meeting for the disposition of comments scheduled for the week of 19/Sep Document formatting is moving from troff to SGML.  1003.1e will be moved to HGML as a prototype project.
IEEE is working on the distribution of draft documents electronically via non-anonymous FTP.  This process will probably not apply to approved IEEE standards. A CD distribution might be available in the future. Note:  ISO drafts might be available publicly in electronic format.
Japanese National Body is translating the 9945-2 standard for the JIS standard.  Japan would like the English language troff format available in an electronic format for this effort.
Action Item 9405-39 on the project editor to request IEEE to make this available.

 2.6.1) Defect reports/interpretations and corrigenda. Input from United States on 9945-1 and 9945-2

Reference: N481
Denmark points out that there is no official WG15 position on how to handle defect reports.  The response time and technical content of our current method is inadequate.  This is related to the synchronization plan discussion.  There are likely to be a large number of defect reports in the near future.

 2.7) Rapporteur groups report/status.

 2.7.1) Security (Jon Spencer).

Reference: N490
RGSEC response to WG15 resolution 92-298.  RGSEC believes that this report should be forwarded to SC27 as a liaison statement and to 1003.6 for information.  RGSEC to forward a resolution to the drafting committee to do this.  Action item 9405-40 on the Convenor to forward these documents. There is very little member body participation in RGSEC, therefore RGSEC believes that their work is complete and any additional security work would be best carried out as a liaison function.

 2.7.2) Conformance testing (Jerry Powell).

Reference: WG15 N439, N442, N445.
Roger Martin chaired the meeting in Jerry's absence.  RGCT recommends a resolution that N480 be forwarded to JTC1/SC21 and SGFS as a WG15 liaison statement on conformance testing.  Action item 9405-41 on the Convenor to forward these documents.

 2.7.2.1) Proposed liaison statement on ISO guide 25 interpretation.

Reference: WG15 N454, N480
See above (2.7.2).

 2.7.3) Internationalization (Keld Simonsen).

Reference: WG15 N438, N491, N471, N472
RIN met just before the WG15 meeting and produced three resolutions for consideration by WG15.

RIN resolution J090594-1:  Should ISO use the CEN registry for POSIX national profiles, locales and charmaps.  Canada and the United States feel that the mechanisms of how this registry would work are not well defined.  How would items be inserted into this registry?  How would they be maintained?  This information is covered in N444.  Action item 9405-42 on the member bodies to determine the feasibility of working with CEN for this registry by the Oct/94 meeting.  No further action planed on this resolution until the completion of this action item.

Due to the time requirements of the coming CEN meeting a resolution was forwarded to the drafting expressing our general interest in this registry but withholding commitment to use it pending member body response.  RIN resolution J090594-2:  Posted to agenda item 4.5.1, reference N491 RIN resolution J090594-3:  This should be part of the overall SGFS liaison report.   SGFS has observed that a national standard is often viewed as a local appendix to a international standard.  The primary value to the national profile is not to the originating country but to every other that wants to communicate with the originating country. Note that a national profile does not necessarily mean the same thing as a national standard. N470 or the N470 section of the SGFS liaison statement should be reworded to ask SGFS questions directly rather than suggesting a resolution requisition SGFS to review N470.

 2.7.4) Profile coordination (Arnie Powell).

The profile coordination group did not meet in conjunction with WG15 and no report is available.

 3) Small group breakout.

 3.1) Identification of small group topics and document assignment.

No small groups were required for this WG15 meeting.

 4) Actions arising from reports.

 4.1) Actions related to issues.

No further issues have been identified to date.

 4.2) Responses to JTC1 or SC22 actions.

No response other than action items already assigned are required at this time.

 4.3) Proposals related to IEEE PASC activities and/or priorities.

No action required.

 4.4) Liaison statements and actions related thereto.

Reference: WG15 N458, N466, N4769
Denmark believes that CEN and WG20 liaison statements are required.  Denmark proposes that resolutions would be sufficient to cover this; however this is inconsistent with established procedures in WG15.  Denmark will provide some liaison statements for consideration by WG15 and draft resolutions for the drafting committee.

4.4.1)       SGFS Liaison statement.

Reference: N4772, N470
Part 1 Resolution on inclusion of APIs within TR10000-3.  The definition of exactly what an API is seems to be the crux of the issue.  Should a ISP be limited to approved standards? Many profile developers want to use X/Open specifications that are not yet (or may never be) standards.  WG15 could suggest that a broader definition of API is required and let SGFS determine what the exact wording is.  There is significant doubt that sufficient expertise exists within SGFS or EWOS to provide this expanded definition.  Should there be an action item on National Bodies to provide detailed examples of what a nexpanded API definition for SGFS should be?  POSIX has far more expertise in this area than SGFS.

Part 2 Resolution on harmonization of POSIX national profiles within TR10000.  WG15 has concerns about national and regional standards being used within ISPs.  Forward N470 to SGFS with a request for clarification on how a POSIX national profile can be accepted as a ISP under TR10000.
Action item 9405-45 on the SGFS Liaison to forward the liaison statement incorporating the above two resolutions to SGFS.

Part 3 Resolution for the SGFS Liaison to forward N496 to SGFS in response to their liaison statement N448 referencing our request to expand the scope of WG15 ISPs in SC22.
Action item 9405-46 on the SGFS Liaison to do so.

 4.5) Actions related to rapporteur groups.

 4.5.1) Review of terms of reference, task assignment and near term objectives.

Reference: N491
RIN  RIN has provided a detail summary of it's current work and the expected deliverables and completion dates for these deliverables.  WG15 approves this program of work.

RGSEC  Having completed their program of work they have nothing to do.  The United States recommends disbanding the group, although it might be reformed in the future. Any work in this area could best be handled by an informal eMail reflector.  Action item 9405-47 on RGSEC Rapporteur to do this.  Resolution forwarded to drafting committee disbanding RGSEC.

RGCPA  Was not present at the meeting.  Action item 9405-48 on RGCPA to provide a report at the Oct/94 meeting on their progress towards completing their terms of reference.

 4.6) Defect reports/interpretations and corrigenda.

No defect reports have arrived at WG15 to date.  Several are expected in the near future. Denmark issued a defect report three years ago.  The response when delivered from the IEEE was not adequate or satisfactory. Action item 9405-49 on Denmark to provide a report of their problems with the response via eMail by 30/Jun/94.

 5) Project activities, registration, balloting, content.

 5.0.1) Base document for language bindings (C, Ada, Fortran: United States, Modula2: New Zealand).

 Covered in 2.5.3, no further action needed.

 5.1) 9945-x LIS system interface.

Reference: 22.21.01.01  IEEE 1372 CD registration and LIS progress.
 This document was distributed to WG15 for review and comment.  Very few comments have been received to date.  Denmark submitted N435 as comments, it is believed these are the only comments. The CD registration ballot could begin before the next meeting.

 5.2) 9945-2 Shell and utilities.

 5.2.1) Shell and utilities base.

Reference: 22.21.02.01  IEEE 1003.2  IS  WG15 N416, N420.
 Action item 9405-52 on the United States to review N416 and N420 and forward them to PASC for consideration.

 5.2.2) User portability extensions.

Reference: 22.21.02.02  IEEE 1003.2a  included in IS.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.2.3) Additional utilities.

Reference: 22.41  IEEE 1003.2b  CD registration.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.2.4) Security amendment.

Reference: 22.43  IEEE 1003.2c (old 1003.6)  CD registration.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.2.5) Batch Services.

Reference: 22.21.03.02  IEEE 1003.d .15a  review and comment, N478
 This document has 100% approval.  It has a incorrect SC22 registration number under system administration, while it really deals with shell and utilities.  A division of work is required for this.  A resolution is requested from the drafting to indicate that a division of work item is appropriate.
Action item 9405-53 on the Convenor to forward this resolution to SC22.

 5.3) Administered systems.

 5.3.1) System administration.

Reference: 22.21.03.01  IEEE 1387.1 (old 1003.7+).
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.3.2) Software administration.

Reference: 22.21.03.04  IEEE 1387.2 D13 (old 1003.7.2).
 In process of being distributed to WG15 and SC22 for review and comment.

 5.3.3) User administration.

Reference: 22.21.03.05  IEEE 1387.3 D4 (old 1003.7.3).
 Will be circulated to WG15 in a few weeks for review and comment of scope and purpose only.

 5.3.4) Print administration.

Reference: 22.21.03.03  IEEE 1387.4 D8 (old 1003.7.1) CD registration.
 No documents, no actions.  The first public draft is close but not ready yet.

 5.3.5) Batch services.

Reference: 22.21.03.02  IEEE 1003.2d (old 1003.15a), N478, SC22 N1497.
 Covered under agenda item 5.2.5.

 5.4) 9945-1 C language bindings.

 5.4.1) C language binding.

Reference: 22.21.04.01  IEEE 1003.1  CD registration.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.2) Extensions to base.

Reference: 22.39  IEEE 1003.1a.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.3) Real time extensions.

Reference: 22.21.01.02.01 IEEE 1003.1b (old 1003.4)  DAM ballot.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.4) Real time extensions.

Reference: 22.21.02.02.02 IEEE 1003.1c (old 1003.4a)  CD ballot.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.5) Extensions to real time.

Reference: 22.21.40  IEEE 1003.1d (old 1003.4b).
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.6) Security amendment.

Reference: 22.42  IEEE 1003.1e (old 1003.6)  CD registration.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.7) Transparent file access.

Reference: 22.21.01.03.01 IEEE 1003.1f (old 1003.8)  CD registration.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.8) Protocol independent interface.

Reference: 22.21.01.03.03 IEEE 1003.1g (old 1003.12)  WG review and comment.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.4.9) Directory services.

Reference: 22.21.01.03.04 IEEE 1224.2.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.5) Ada Language Bindings.

Reference: 22.21.04.02  IEEE 1003.5+  fast track expected.
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.6) Fortran Language Bindings.

Reference: 22.21.04.03  IEEE 1003.9
 No documents, no discussion, no actions.

 5.7) Guide to POSIX OSE.

Reference: 22.38  IEEE 1003.0  PDTR WG15 N452, N479
 SC22 N1499 (Note: Available for reference at the meeting).  Draft 16.1 is proposed for CD registration.  Draft 17 will be balloted in August.  Anyone with comments is invited to the July POSIX meeting in New Hampshire.  Resolution forwarded to drafting committee to accept N479 as the disposition of comments for the PDTR registration ballot.

 5.8) Test Methods.

 5.8.1) CD 13210 Test methods.

Reference: 22.37  IEEE 1003.3  DIS.
 The DIS 13210 ballot closes on 27/Jul/94.  Referenced in action item 9405-26.

 5.8.2) Test methods for 9945-1:1990.

Reference: 22.xx  IEEE 2003.1  CD registration, WG15 N454.
 The JTC1 NP ballot closes on 20/May/94.

 5.8.3) Test methods for 9945-2.

Reference: IEEE 2003.2
 No documents.  Still in progress within the IEEE.

 5.8.4) Comprehensive test methods NP.

 No documents, pending feedback from SC22.

 5.9) Guide for National Profiles and Locales.

Reference: WG15 N387r, N461, N470, N483.
 N387r has been approved by WG15 to be forwarded to SC22 as a NP.  Action item 9405- 43 on the Convenor to do so and request the work be assigned to WG15 (WG20 has also expressed interest in doing this work).  Denmark feels very strongly that this work should be done in WG15 and not the IEEE;  Japan's original intention was to do the work in Japan but they are currently unsure about the resource availability to complete the work. Denmark believes that the focus of this report is member bodies and not users or manufactures. Denmark also feels that liaison will be required with CEN and WG20 which is not available from the IEEE.
Action item 9405-43 on member bodies to provide detailed proposals for the Oct/94 meeting on how this work is to be structured and completed.

 6) New business.

 6.1) Response to SC22 recommendations for cross language work..

 There is no need to produce recommendations because the ballot has not been issued yet and there are no recommendations to review.

 6.2) What liaisons do we need?  Which ones require an identified individual?

Reference: WG15 N454.
 SD-6 contains all liaisons to and from WG15.  SD-6 was updated to show existing but unfilled liaisons from WG15 to SC21, SC22 WG5, WG14, EWOS (conformance testing & profiles), SC21 ad hoc on ISO guide 25 interpretation.  Resolution to appoint Mr. Keld Simonsen as liaison to WG14 forwarded to drafting committee.
 See action item on Convenor 9405-38.

 6.3) Synchronization plan revision.

Reference: WG15 N352r, N381, N426, N460, N476
 The United States delivered a report on the current and proposed synchronization plan based on N476.

 An ad hoc group (initial members Denmark, United States, Japan, Canada, UK) chaired by Jon Spencer is formed to develop recommendations for improving and completing this synchronization procedure.  The work of this ad hoc will be conducted via eMail with the initial invitation to go out on the global WG15 mailing list.  Action item 9405-51 on Jon Spencer to provide a written report back to WG15 on the results of this ad hoc at the Oct/94 meeting.

 Action item 9405-50 on the Convenor to request all member bodies to participate in this ad hoc. Resolution forwarded to the drafting committee to support this.

 6.4) Character concept.

Reference: WG15 N441.
 No action

 6.5) JTC1 API studies and considerations.

Reference: WG15 N410, N446, SC22 N1564, JTC1 N2890
 The purpose of these documents is to keep us aware of SC21 work. We might want to have the United States review this work..
Action item 9405-54 on the United States to review SC22 N1566 and JTC1 N2890 and report back to WG15 if there are any issues.

 6.6) Char ID (Canada)

Reference N444, N462
 This is a better way of doing charmaps based on Canada's experience in this area.  This document has been presented to WG20 who has accepted it.  The CEN registry and X/Open is aligned with this proposal.  Canada would like to give this to PASC for inclusion in 1003.2b. Resolution forwarded to the drafting committee to forward this to PASC.  Action item 9405-55 on the United States to forward N462 to PASC for inclusion 1003.2b and report back to WG15 on actions taken. Denmark would like N444 included in the 1003.2b draft as well.  Two resolutions forwarded to the drafting committee to forward this to PASC.
Action item 9405-56 on the United States to forward N444 to PASC for inclusion 1003.2b and report back to WG15 on actions taken

 7) Review and approval.

 7.1) Tasks and assignments for rapporteur groups.

 No further tasks, other than those already covered by action items, were assigned to the rapporteur groups.

 7.2) Resolutions (Drafting Committee).

 The resolutions attached to these minutes were approved by WG15.

 7.3) Action items (Secretary).

 The action items attached to these minutes were approved by WG15.

 7.4) Issues list (Vice Chair).

 8) Closing process.

 8.1) Future meeting considerationsrequest for invitations.

 Action item 9405-57 on the Convenor to confirm that the Netherlands is hosting the May 1995 meeting.

24-28 October, 1994 c/w IEEE

Whistler Convention Center, Whistler, British Columbia

April, 1995

Netherlands

16-20 October, 1995 c/w IEEE

Florida, USA.

Seeking Invitations:

Early 1996    Denmark
Late 1996    France, or?
Early 1997
Late 1997  c/w IEEE United States

 8.2) Document number assignment.

 Document numbers were assigned to temporary documents generated at the Tokyo meeting, group reports, member body contributions and these minutes.

 8.3) Selection of Vice Chair and Secretary for next meeting.

Canada will be providing the chair for the Oct/94 meeting.  The Netherlands would normally provide a vice chair for the Oct/94 meeting.  Action item 9405-65 on the Convenor to check with the Netherlands on this.  Canada will provide two secretaries for this meeting.

 8.4) Agenda for next meeting.

 A preliminary agenda N501 was reviewed for the Oct/94 meeting.

 8.5) Thanks to host.

 WG15 expresses its thanks to the host and chair for this meeting.

 9) Adjournment.

 9405-01 Barry Needham: Perform a positive address confirmation on all HoDs identified in SD-6 and update the PASC WG15 HoD mailing list appropriately.

 9405-02 Convenor:  Confirm that N423 has been circulated to SC22 for comment.

 9405-03 United States:

1. Consider the LIS and language-binding interface changes necessary to handle character-oriented features as a symbol and not storage patterns for a future revision of 9945-1.

 
2. form SC22/WG15 of any plans for supporting such features in future revisions of all parts of the 9945 standard (resolution 226, open action items 9210-71, 9305-24, 9310-10)

 9405-04 United States: Consider the United Kingdom contribution on a proposed new rigorously conforming conformance class (open action items 9210-77, 9305-26, 9210-13).

 9405-05 United States: Supply a copy of the latest draft of 1003.2b to WG15 for review and comment (open action item 9305-31, 9310-15)

 9405-06 United States: Investigate making electronic copies of draft documents available to WG15 (open action item 9305-33, 9310-16)

 9405-07 United States: To provide a plan for incorporating into 9945-1 the additional rational regarding the use of the terms byte and character as referenced in WG15 N349 (open action item 9305-40, 9310-18)

 9405-08 Project editor:  Prepare a preliminary disposition of comments for 9945-2 and circulate them in July to WG15 member bodies (open action item 9305-41, 9310-19)

 9405-09 RGCPA: WG15 instructs RGCPA to review WG15 N461 and report back to WG15 at its next meeting as to its potential relationship to IEEE 1003.0 (open action item 9305-52, 9310-20)

 9405-10 Convenor:  Request a response from RGCPA to WG15 action item 9405-10 before the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-11 Convenor:  Distribute the draft document of the real-time rapporteur group (RRG) of SC22/WG9 (Ada) proposed standard API for hard real-time services to SC22/WG15.

 9405-12 Project editor:  Notify the development body of collation weight requirements (resolution 93-230, open action item 9305-60, 9310-23)

 9405-13 Convenor:  Request invitation from Denmark for spring 1996 WG15 meeting.

 9405-14 United States: Review the scope of WG15 POSIX security related items and position this work relative to the proposed program of work and terms of reference of SC21, SC18 and their working groups.  United States member body will identify any areas of overlap and report their findings back to WG15 (open action item Paris-01, 9310-25)

 9405-15 Member bodies: Member bodies to contribute national profiles that they have developed to RIN and WG20 (open action item Paris-07, 9310-26)

 9405-16 Canada:  Provide a national profile to RIN and WG20 or provide a progress report on 9405-15 to WG15 by the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-17 United Kingdom:  Provide a national profile to RIN and WG20 or provide a progress report on 9405-15 to WG15 by the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-18 United States and New Zealand: Identify the basis for partitioning of functionality contained in language bindings (open action item 9310-30)

 9405-19 Member bodies: Identify participants in the 9945-1 and 9945-2 interpretations process.  Representatives should be identified to the Convenor via eMail as soon as possible (open action item 9310-37).

 9405-20 Canada:  Review draft 8 of 2003.2 and comment to RGCT for discussion at the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-21 United Kingdom:  Review draft 8 of 2003.2 and comment to RGCT for discussion at the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-22 RIN:  Develop a draft WG15 position on ISO 10646 impact on POSIX standards for consideration by WG15 no later than the October 1994 WG15 meeting (open action item 9310-46).

 9405-23 Member bodies: Comment to WG15 RIN draft position on ISO 10646 impact on POSIX standards (open action item 9310-47).

 9405-24 United States: Report back on option annex status and development for relevant POSIX specifications (open action item 9310-48).

 9405-25 Project editor:  Schedule an editing meeting to develop and forward disposition of comments for DIS 13210 to the SC22 Secretariat (open action item 9310-57).

 9405-26 Convenor:  Provide via eMail to WG15 the closure date for NP ballot of 2003.1 (open action item 9310-58)

 9405-27 Convenor:  Determine the NP number for 2003.1 and provide it to WG15.

 9405-28 Project editor:  Request ITTF to assign part number 0 to IEEE 1372 LIS for JTC1 numbering (open action item 9310-64).

 9405-29 Member bodies: Review and comment on the project management format contained in N486.

 9405-30 Convenor:  Distribute a report in N486 format and post an agenda item to review it at the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-31 Vice Chair:  Reorganize SD-3 to split open and resolved issues.

 9405-32 United States: Query PASC on WG15 issue list item 3 and report back to WG15 on the status of this issue..

 9405-33 Convenor:  Forward resolution 94-x270 requesting CEN involvement with the work of WG15 to SC22.

 9405-34 Project editor:  Provide a pictorial view of how standards are managed and combined for WG15 mailing prior to the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-35 United States: Report on the status of issues raised in N459 at the Oct/94 meeting

 9405-36 Convenor:  To forward to WG13 the WG15 liaison statement (N477).

 9405-37 RIN:  Review the WG20 liaison issues in WG15 N466 and report back to the Oct/94 WG15 meeting with recommendations with respect to what the WG15 position should be and a proposed liaison statement if required.

 9405-38 Convenor:  Issue a request for person to act as WG15 liaison to SC27 (security), SC22/WG5 (Fortran), SC21 (conformance test ad hoc), EWOS (conformance testing and profiles).

 9405-39 Project editor:  Request IEEE to make 9945-2 available to Japan in an electronic troff format to aid in their translation effort.

 9405-40 Convenor:  Send N490 to SC27 and 1003.6, reference WG15 resolution 94-275.

 9405-41 Convenor:  Forward N480 to SC21 as the WG15 contribution relating to JTC1 N2527, with reference to ISO Guide 25, reference WG15 resolution 94-273.

 9405-42 Member bodies: Determine the feasibility of working with CEN as documented in N444 for the registry of POSIX national profiles, locales and charmaps for discussion at the Oct/94 meeting

 9405-43 Convenor:  Forward N387r to SC22 for consultative letter ballot as a new NP and request assignment to WG15.

 9405-44 Member bodies: Provide detailed proposals for the Oct/94 meeting on how the work on the guide for National Profiles and Locales is to be structured and completed.

 9405-45 SGFS Liaison:  Forward the SGFS liaison statement incorporating WG15 resolutions 94- 269 and WG15 N470 to SGFS.

 9405-46 SGFS Liaison:  Forward N496 to SGFS in response to their liaison statement.

 9405-47 RGSEC Lead Rapporteur: To establish eMail list, reflector and archive service for national bodies interested in the security work of WG15.

 9405-48 RGCPA Rapporteur:  To provide a report at the Oct/94 meeting on their progress towards completing their terms of reference.

 9405-49 Denmark:  To provide a report of their problems with the IEEE defect response to WG15 via eMail by 30/Jun/94.

 9405-50 Convenor:  To issue a call to all member bodies to participate in the synchronization procedure ad hoc.

 9405-51 Jon Spencer:  Provide a written report back to WG15 on the results of the ad hoc meeting on synchronization at the Oct/94 meeting.

 9405-52 United States: Review N416 and N420 and forward them to PASC for consideration.

 9405-53 Convenor:  Forward the batch services division of work resolution to SC22.

 9405-54 United States: Review SC22 N1566 and JTC1 N2890 and report back to WG15 if there are any issues.

 9405-55 United States: Forward N462 to PASC for possible inclusion 1003.2b and report back to WG15 on actions taken; reference WG15 resolution 94-282.

 9405-56 United States: Forward N444 to PASC for possible inclusion 1003.2b and report back to WG15 on actions taken; reference WG15 resolution 94-283.

 9405-57 Convenor:  Confirm that the Netherlands is hosting the May 1995 meeting.

 9405-58 CEN working relation:  Send N495 to CEN/TC304 and inform CEN of WG15's interest in their registry for possible future use in registering POSIX national profiles, locales and charmaps; reference WG15 resolution 94-267.

 9405-59 Convenor:  Request SC22 to invite up to two people from CEN/TC304 to participate in future WG15 meetings.

 9405-60 SGFS Liaison:  Forward WG15 resolution 94-272 to SGFS.

 9405-61 Convenor:  Forward WG15 resolution 94-272 to the IEEE PASC 1003.0 working group.

 9405-62 SGFS Liaison:  Forward N480 to SGFS as the WG15 contribution relating to JTC1 N2527, with reference to ISO Guide 25, reference WG15 resolution 94-273.

 9405-63 WG20 Liaison:  Forward N494r to WG20, reference WG15 resolution 94-276.

 9405-64 Convenor:  Notify SC22/WG14 and the SC22 Secretariat of the appointment of Mr. Keld Simonsen as WG15's liaison to WG14.

 9405-65 Convenor:  Inquire if the Netherlands will be providing a person for the vice chair position at the Oct/94 WG15 meeting
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-267    Report to CEN/TC304 on POSIX National Profile, Locale & Charmap Registry

 Whereas ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15's RIN has identified the need for a Registry for POSIX National Profiles, Locales and Charmaps, and

 Whereas RIN recognises that such a registry, currently being established by CEN, should be available to all National Bodies,

 Therefore WG15 instructs its CEN working relation to send WG15 N495 to CEN/TC304 as its liaison statement in order to inform CEN of WG15's interest in the CEN registry, and WG15 further requests member bodies to investigate this issue and to be prepared to discuss it at the next WG15 meeting (in October 1994).
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-268    Approval of Terms of Reference of RIN

 Whereas ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 action item 9305-38 has instructed its lead Rapporteurs to review the Terms of Reference of their rapporteur groups and report back to WG15,

 Therefore WG15 approves N491 as RIN's Terms of Reference, Program of Work and Plans and Deliverables, as a replacement for WG15 N280.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-269    Liaison Statement to JTC1/SGFS on the Harmonisation of POSIX National Profiles and OSE Profile ISPs

 Whereas ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 member bodies are developing POSIX National Profiles (as described in ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 annex E, ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 annex G and WG15 N461), and

 Whereas ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 is concerned that requirements for POSIX National Profiles may preclude them from becoming ISPs, and

 Whereas it is important that POSIX National Profiles have ISP status in order that they be accessible to all interested parties worldwide, including member bodies,

 Therefore WG15 instructs its SGFS liaison to forward WG15 N470 to SGFS as the expression of its concerns with a request for SGFS to make any necessary changes to TR10000 to enable POSIX National Profiles to become ISPs, especially addressing the issue of references to national and regional standards in POSIX National Profiles.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-270    CEN Participation in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15

 Whereas SC22 N1556 confirms the validity of reciprocal CEN TC representation on JTC1 committees,

 Therefore ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 believes it would be advantageous to the progress of its work and instructs its Convener to ask SC22 to invite up to two persons from CEN/TC304 to participate in future ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 meetings.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-271    Liaison Statement to SC22/WG13

 Whereas ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 approves WG15 N477 as the WG15 response to the SC22/WG13 liaison statement (WG13 D204) to WG15,

 Therefore ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 instructs its Convener to send the liaison statement in WG15 N477 to WG13.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-272    Liaison Statement to JTC1/SGFS on APIs

 Whereas two classes of interfaces defined in ISO/IEC PDTR 14252 (POSIX P1003.0) are:

• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which are defined as interfaces between applications and platforms, and
• Platform Internal Interfaces (PIIs) which are defined as interfaces between internal platform components, and

 Whereas the distinction between these two classes is subject to interpretation, and

 Whereas proposed modifications to TR10000-3 in SGFS N1115 and N1117 attempt to generalise the term API so as to widen the scope of the interfaces that may be included within OSE Profiles, while avoiding use of the term PII, and

 Whereas WG15 has within its scope of work interfaces which facilitate application-to-application functionality, (for instance pipes, shared memory, and IPC facilities within 9945-1), and SGFS N1115 and N1117 include as an example of an application-to-application interface the X/Open XA interface,

 Therefore WG15 requests SGFS to ensure that the definition of OSE Profiles meets the requirements for application portability by permitting the inclusion of application-to-application interfaces, and

 Therefore WG15 proposes that, in order to facilitate the inclusion of profiles referencing POSIX standards within TR10000-3, the term Application Program Interface should be interpreted more widely as an interface between application software and a provider of appropriate services, and

 Therefore WG15 instructs its SGFS liaison to send this resolution to SGFS and instructs its Convener to send this resolution to the US member body for delivery to the PASC IEEE P1003.0 working group.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-273    Liaison Statement to JTC1/SGFS in Response to SGFS N1081

 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 instructs its SGFS liaison to forward WG15 N496, together with an appropriate cover letter, to ISO/IEC JTC1/SGFS, as the WG15 response to the SGFS liaison statement N1081, (WG15 N448).
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-274    Liaison Statement to JTC1/SC21 and JTC1/SGFS on Harmonising Conformance Testing Terminology

 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 authorises the forwarding of WG15 N480, together with an appropriate cover letter, to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21, and also to SGFS, as the WG15 contribution relating to JTC1 N2527, with reference to ISO Guide 25.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-275    Liaison Statement to JTC1/SC27 on Security Related Standards

 Whereas ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 believes that its report detailing the standards bodies currently developing security-related standards, WG15 N490, may be of value to SC27 and to IEEE PASC P1003.6,

 Therefore, the Convener is instructed to send WG15 N490 with an appropriate cover letter to SC27 as a liaison statement, and also to send WG15 N490 to the US Member Body (for the attention of P1003.6) for information.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-276    Liaison Statement to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 on Registries for Internationalisation

 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 instructs its WG20 liaison to send WG15 N494R, together with an appropriate cover letter, to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-277    Dissolution of SC22/WG15 RGSec

 WG15 thanks its Rapporteur group on Security, RGSec, together with all its members, past and present, for its work on POSIX security and acknowledges the completion of RGSec's assigned tasks.

 WG15 hereby dissolves RGSec.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-278    Formation of SC22/WG15 Synchronization Ad Hoc Group

 Whereas Denmark and Japan have expressed concerns with the effectiveness of the current WG15 synchronization plan (refer to WG15 N381, WG15 N426, and WG15 N460), and

 Whereas the United States has brought forward a proposed plan (N476) for developing a revision of the current WG15 synchronization plan (N352R), and

 Whereas there is an ongoing effort to develop a project management form (WG15 N486),

 Therefore, WG15 authorizes the formation of an ad hoc group, to be led by Jon Spencer, with the following terms of reference:

 a) Draft a proposed revision of WG15 N352R for discussion at the October 1994 WG15 meeting.
 b) Include consideration of  new JTC1 Directives in the revision.
 c) Consider SC22's procedures for processing defect reports (SC22 N1236).
 d) Present to WG15, in the same form as used in the presentation by the US at the May 1994 WG15 meeting, the proposed synchronization process.
 e) Recommend an implementation plan encompassing both the proposed synchronization plan and the project management form.
 f) Meet exclusively via electronic means.

RESOLUTION 94-279    Division of Work Item, Batch Services

 Whereas POSIX Batch Services (P1003.15, JTC1/SC22 work item number 22.21.03.02) has been assigned a work item that is part of POSIX system administration, and

 Whereas the development group has produced work that is an extension to the POSIX shell and utilities, and

 Whereas the development group intends to resume work on the system administration aspects of batch services,

 Therefore WG15 instructs its Convener to request SC22 to approve a Division of Work item to permit the work on POSIX batch services to be split into a system administration component, a shell and utilities component, and a system interface component.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-280    Disposition of Comments on PDTR Guide to POSIX OSE

 Whereas the US has proposed WG15 N479 as the disposition of comments on the PDTR registration ballot of IEEE document P1003.0,

 Therefore SC22/WG15 approves N479 as the disposition of comments for PDTR 'Guide to the POSIX OSE' and recommends the registration of the document as a PDTR.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-281    Approval of Liaison from SC22/WG15 to SC22/WG14

 SC22/WG15 nominates Mr. Keld Simonsen as its liaison to SC22/WG14 ('C') and instructs its Convener to notify both SC22/WG14 and the SC22 secretariat of this.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-282    Sending SC22/WG15 N462 (CHARIDS) to IEEE PASC

 Whereas Canada has identified a proposal for a future amendment to 9945-2 for the inclusion of CHARIDS as a mapping for symbolic character names,

 Therefore ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 requests the US member body to send WG15 N462 to the US Development Body for possible inclusion as an amendment to PASC 1003.2b and requests the US to present the results of their review to WG15 at its October 1994 meeting.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-283    Sending WG15 N444 (CEN Cultural Elements Registry) to IEEE PASC

 Whereas CEN/TC304 is producing a registry standard including Locales and Charmaps as defined in ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993 and has identified a need for a further POSIX entity to be registered as a Charsymbmap,

 Therefore ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 requests the US member body to send WG15 N444 to the US Development Body for possible inclusion of charsymbmap (see N444 section 6.9) as an amendment to PASC 1003.2b and requests the US to present the results of their review to WG15 at its October 1994 meeting.
 
 

RESOLUTION 94-284    Appreciations

 JTC1/SC22/WG15 especially thanks Professor Nobuo Saito for chairing the meeting, and for arranging the venue, facilities and excellent dinner at this very successful meeting.

 SC22/WG15 especially thanks IPSJ/ITSCJ, particularly Mr. Akio Saitoh, senior advisor and former secretary general, and Ms. Mariko Takeuchi and Ms. Sachiko Minezaki for their invaluable assistance throughout the meeting.

 SC22/WG15 thanks Mr. Barry Needham for serving as secretary for the meeting.

 SC22/WG15 thanks Mr. David Cannon, Mr. John Hill, Mr. Masahiro Morita and Mr. Keld Simonsen for their unstinting devotion to the Drafting Committee.
 
 

WG15 JTC1/SC22/WG15 N499
Date: 13/May/94
Subject: Draft (un-approved) minutes of the May 1994 WG15 meeting.