ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 (Posix) Meeting, Reading, United Kingdom
				 October 1992

				Meeting Report



	0. Introduction:

	The Plenary ran  from the 27th to the 30th of October,	preceded
	by meetings  of the  Rapporteur  Groups on  Conformance Testing,
	Security,  Internationalisation   and  also  on  Coordination of
	Profile Activities.

	Thirty-one delegates from the US, the UK, Canada, France, Japan,
	Germany, Denmark  and  New Zealand  attended the  Plenary.   The
	agenda included sixty action items  and some seventy-five papers
	for consideration;  the Plenary  scheduled three  sub-groups for
	one half-day in order  to best manage the  work-load.



	1. Plenary:

	One area of concern,  raised by France, is the apparent overlap,
	and therefore potential for conflict,  between the Ada Real-Time
	work in WG9 and the Ada binding to the Posix Real-Time Amendment
	to 9945-1:1990.  WG15 recognised that these need to be addressed
	and felt the problem was best registered on the WG15 Issues List
	at present, to ensure that it remained visible.

	Various concerns raised by the UK referencing Conformance issues
	were discussed by WG15:   the points first raised as comments on
	the Posix Test Methods NP,  and subsequently  raised at the SC22
	Plenary, Tampere, will be addressed  by the development of an NP
	for Test Methods to be drafted by the UK Member Body.



	The UK	has also  been discussing  the concept of a new class of
	conformance, referred to as "Rigorously Conforming":

	The Posix  draft  standards  currently state that even "strictly
	conforming" POSIX applications do not require conformance to the
	Language standard; e.g. a "strictly conforming" application only
	needs to satisfy the requirements of the binding.

	"Rigorously Conforming" would combine strictly conforming to the
	POSIX standard plus strictly conforming to the language standard.
	(The objective	of the	higher level  class of conformance is to
	further increase the level of portability of an application).

	The outcome of	the discussion was that the UK prepare an expert
	contribution  describing the proposed  new class  of conformance
	and submit it to the development body for consideration.


	A number of  minor problems have arisen over  recent months with
	ballots and/or comments  being lost in	transmission through the
	SC22 secretariat.   The latest is that the Posix Test Methods NP
	(P1003.3) has been mis-registered  as a Type 3	Technical Report
	rather than as a new standard.	WG15 resolved to notify the SC22
	secretariat and request this to be corrected ASAP.


	WG15 Plenary  produced	seventy-six  action items, (seventeen of
	which will require the attention of  IST/5/-/15),   plus twenty-
	five resolutions.



	2. UK Delegation:

	The UK was well represented at Reading, this being 'home ground',
	the delegation consisting of:

		David Cannon	UK BSI IST/5/-/15 Convenor, PUKE
						(University of Exeter)
		Don Folland	Meeting Chair	(CCTA)
		Derek Jones	UK BSI IST/5/-/14 Convenor
						(Knowledge Software)
		Martin Kirk	Meeting Secretary
						(X/Open Company Ltd)
		Greger Leijonhufvud	RIN Rapporteur
						(SCO)

	Two UK experts attended the RGCT meeting at the beginning of the
	week on behalf of IST/5/-/15:

		Colin O'Driscoll        RGCT Rapporteur
						(NCC)
		Dan Chacon			(BSI QA)


	Dave Cannon
	9-November-1992