Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:18:57 GMT
From: Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org>
Subject: (SC22WG15.1366) The Open Group Category C Liaison Report


Title: The Open Group Liaison Report		SC22/WG15 N782

Date: 1999-01-15

Source: Andrew Josey, The Open Group

Action: for information

This  is a brief status update for the Austin Group. The group
met in September 1998 and have agreed a technical scope for
the common revision (see http://www.opengroup.org/austin for details).

The goal of the Revision project is to produce	a common set of books that
would replace the core POSIX specifications and appropriate parts
of the Single UNIX Specification, and carry joint copyrights  of The Open
Group and the IEEE. These books would be a subset of the materials that
would make up a future version of the Single UNIX Specification.

There are still some procedural issues that need to be	worked out,
these are being handled by another joint committee between TOG/PASC/WG15.
There are also business issues that need to be agreed between TOG and IEEE.
It is assumed that the output of the January meeting will
be sufficient for the technical group (The Austin Group) to commence
its work shortly thereafter.

Current thoughts for meetings for 1999 are as follows; up to four
meetings this year. The first meeting is expected to occur in early March ,
with another meeting in July (Montreal). The first meeting is expected to
focus on generating the table of contents for the specifications, and then
a first draft would be produced for the July meeting. We expect to produce
two drafts this year.



Andrew Josey
The Open Group