ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 (Posix) Meeting, Annapolis, USA
				 October 1993

				Meeting Report



	0. Introduction:

	Twenty-three  delegates  from Germany,	the Netherlands, the US,
	the UK,  Canada,  Denmark,  Japan,  Germany  and the Netherlands
	attended  the WG15  meeting in Annapolis.   The agenda	included
	sixty-eight action items and some sixty papers for consideration.

	The Plenary  was  preceded on the  25th and 26th  of  October by
	meetings of the WG15  Rapporteur Groups on Internationalisation,
	Conformance  Testing,  Security  and  also  on	Coordination  of
	Profile Activities.



	1. Plenary
	1.0  ISO 9945-2:

	9945-2, the 'Shell and Utilities' Posix standard, closed its DIS
	ballot on 6-June.  A Disposition of Comments meeting was held in
	July, in conjunction with the IEEE PASC Posix meeting, and
	produced a Ballot Disposition statement, which proposed to
	incorporate a number of the International comments as editorial
	changes to the Standard, and to accept the remainder as a
	revised Annex H, which would form the basis of a future
	amendment to 9945-2.  This proposal was accepted by the National
	Bodies whose comments were affected.

	Denmark was concerned that its comments on 9945-2 were not
	accommodated in 9945-2 due to a failure of the Synchronisation
	plan.  At the WG15 meeting Denmark requested changes to the
	Plan, which involved WG15 distribution of PARs and of PASC Draft
	documents in the WG15 mailing on a regular basis.  Denmark and
	the WG15 Convener were actioned to work on an updated
	Synchronisation Plan for consideration at the next WG15 meeting.

	Following the approval at the SC22 Plenary in September of the
	current ISO/IEC Posix and IEEE PASC Posix Synchronisation Plan,
	which incorporates a mechanism for handling Interpretations
	Requests, (otherwise known as Defect Reports or queries) it was
	reported that some sixty Requests were in the pipeline for
	9945-1:1990 and 9945-2:1993.  National Member Bodies were asked
	to provide nominees for a Defect Report resolution (sub-)
	committee.  PASC IEEE is currently working on a number of the
	Interpretations requests.


	1.1  P1003.0 'Guide':

	The Posix Guide TR, also known as P1003.0, was debated during
	the WG15 meeting in the light of criticism from SGFS amongst
	others.

	While the IEEE PASC group (which had met over the previous week)
	had acknowledged a problem with Draft 16 of P1003.0 - the lack
	of the word 'Posix' before 'OSE' throughout the document - and
	had proposed resubmitting Draft 15 to ISO together with a cover
	letter of explanation, WG15 persuaded the US that this was
	ill-advised.  The P1003.0 technical editor produced Draft 16.1,
	fixing this problem, during the week and the UK member of the
	WG15 Profiles group was able to bring a copy home with him.


	1.2  ISO Guide 25 Interpretations:

	WG15 considers that the document is not well applied to its area
	of work.  The US suggested that the document is fatally flawed.
	WG15 resolved to ask SC21 to suspend progress of the Guide 25
	until WG15 has had the opportunity to make more substantive
	comment on the document between now and its May 1994 meeting.


	WG15 Plenary  produced	sixty-six action items, (eleven of which
	will require the attention of BSI's IST/5/-/15), plus twenty-one
	resolutions.



	2. UK Delegation:

	The UK delegation consisted of:
		David Cannon	UK BSI IST/5/-/15 Convenor, PUKE
						(University of Exeter)
		Martin Kirk			(X/Open Company Ltd)
		Colin O'Driscoll        RGCT Rapporteur
						(NCC)
		Dan Chacon			(BSI QA)
		Peter Owens		RGCPA Rapporteur
						(CCTA)


	David Cannon
	1-November-1993