From: Andrew Josey [ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:45 PM
To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk
Subject: (SC22WG15.1558) The Open Group Liaison Report


Title: The Open Group Liaison Report		SC22/WG15 N820

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).


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