ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 (Posix) Meeting, Tokyo, Japan
				   May 1994

				Meeting Report



	1. Introduction:

	Fourteen delegates from five member countries attended the
	thirteenth meeting of WG15 in Tokyo.  The countries represented
	were Canada, Denmark, Japan, the UK and the USA.  Attendance of
	the European countries was reduced by the distance and costs
	involved in travelling to the venue.  The agenda  included
	sixty-six action items together with sixty papers for
	consideration.

	The Plenary was preceded on the 9th and 10th of May by meetings
	of WG15's Rapporteur Groups on:
	    . Internationalisation
	    . Conformance Testing
	    . Security


	2. Plenary
	2.1 TR10000 Concerns:

	The UK raised some concerns with the current scope of the SGFS
	TR10000-3 document, essentially that in its current form it
	appeared it might prevent the inclusion of certain Posix base
	standards as members of profiles.  The UK delegation included
	Jeremy Tucker, chair of EWOS EG-OSE, who was able to give the
	background to the TR10000-3 process and structure.  The specific
	problems that the UK saw with TR10000-3 were then outlined.

	WG15 determined that the definition of API in TR10000 needed to
	be generalised to allow application-to-application interfaces,
	as in things like XA, etc, and the meeting resolved to produce a
	liaison statement to SGFS indicating the form of words for the
	term API which TR10000-3 should adopt in order to permit the
	family of Posix standards to fit.

	The UK delegation believes the WG15 recommendation, while
	avoiding the problems of defining Platform Internal Interfaces
	(PIIs) within TR10000, addresses the concerns it raised.


	2.2 Work Items:

	A draft on Posix Batch Services is available, but currently has
	an incorrect SC22 registration relating it to system
	administration, while it is really an amendment of the shell and
	utilities (9945-2) standard.  WG15 resolved to ask SC22 for a
	division of work item to correct this, and allow the work to
	proceed.

	A draft on Posix Software Administration, reference 22.21.03.04,
	is in the process of being distributed to WG15 and SC22 for
	review and comment.

	A User Administration draft, reference 22.21.03.05, will be
	circulated to WG15 in a few weeks for review and comment of
	scope and purpose only.

	Draft 16.1 of The Guide to the POSIX OSE, reference 22.38 (SC22
	N1499), is proposed for PDTR registration.  Draft 17 will be
	produced by August.  WG15 resolved to accept WG15 N479 as the
	disposition of comments for the PDTR registration ballot.

	The DIS 13210 ballot on CD 13210 Test methods, reference 22.37,
	was noted as closing on 27-Jul-94.

	The JTC1 NP ballot for Test methods for 9945-1:1990, reference
	22.xx, closes on 20-May-94.


	2.3 Posix IEEE/ISO Synchronisation Plan:

	Following concerns expressed at the October 1993 meeting by
	Denmark on shortcomings of the IEEE PASC/ISO WG15
	Synchronisation plan, the United States brought forward a
	proposal for its revision which was intended to resolve the
	problems.

	An ad hoc group (initial members Denmark, United States, Japan,
	Canada, UK) chaired by Jon Spencer (US) was formed to develop
	the recommendations in the proposal.  The work of this ad hoc
	will be conducted via eMail, with the report due at the October
	1994 meeting of WG15.


	WG15 Plenary  produced sixty-five action items, (twelve of which
	will require the attention of BSI's IST/5/-/15), plus eighteen
	resolutions.



	3. UK Delegation:

	The UK delegation consisted of:
		David Cannon	UK BSI IST/5/-/15 Convenor, PUKE
		Martin Kirk
		Jeremy Tucker


	David Cannon
	13-May-1994