WG15 N557

		     UK Action Item Report to WG15,  May 1995


9410-02 UK: To provide a report on the progress of its National
	profile to SC22/WG15 by the May 1995 meeting.
							(Closed)
		There has been no progress on a further draft of the UK
		National Profile for POSIX since WG15's meeting in
		October 1994.

		The UK received a number of very useful comments from
		Don Cragun as unofficial input to the document, together
		with some queries from Denmark and more recently from
		the Netherlands.  These are currently being considered.
		The UK expresses its thanks to all those who have spent
		time helping to improve the work.

9410-06 Member bodies: Comment to WG15 RIN draft position on ISO
	10646 impact on POSIX standards (open action item 9310-47,
	9405-23)					(Open)
		N527, the RIN Report to WG15, RIN N142, was referenced
		as the input document to this action in the WG15 plenary.
		N527 indicates that a paper (presumably WG15RIN N133?)
		was discussed at the October RIN meeting and was to be
		modified in line with that discussion.	Subsequent
		mailings from WG15 have not, to our knowledge, included
		a revised version of RIN N133 for discussion, as
		indicated would be done in section 3.4 of the RIN
		minutes for October.  Specifically the current version
		of N133 does not address the areas of POSIX impacted by
		the potential use of UTF-8 as an encoding mechanism for
		IS 10646.

9410-16 Member bodies: Notify Project Editor of the names of the
	participants for the Synchronization AdHoc by December 31, 1994.
							(Closed)
		Martin Kirk and David Cannon volunteered to participate.
		KS (Denmark) was asked at the WG15 October meeting to
		add the names to the new email 'Sync' list.

9410-19 Member bodies: Provide input on identification of
	existing conformance testing activities to the WG15 RGCT
	Rapporteur (See N526, section 5.1)		(Closed)
		Jon Leigh (UK, NCC) has forwarded a document entitled
		'The Directory of IT&T Test Services', (ENS document CC35
		Vn 4.1) to the RGCT lead Rapporteur on behalf of the UK
		as its response to this action.  The document is a guide
		to the test services available for IT&T products within
		Europe, detailing the specifications and profiles tested
		together with the the test laboratories which carry out
		conformance testing.

9410-22 Member bodies: Submit names to be included in the
	synchronization Email list to Keld Simonsen by 18 Nov. 1994.
							(Closed)
		See 9410-16 above.

9410-27 Member bodies: Review documents listed in 9410-26.
							(Open)
		These are:
		P1003.2b Shell and Utilities - Extensions: Draft 10
							(Received 3-Mar)
		The UK is concerned that a significant number of items
		are marked by the document editor as awaiting Danish
		input, together with a few marked awaiting input from
		Japan.	Would the Danish and Japanese MBs be prepared to
		indicate the status of their expected input in each of
		the flagged items in a report to WG15, and to resolve
		any disputed items (as distinct from disputed input)
		with the US MB?

		Danish input is required on: Pp 7,10,12,17,19,120
		Japanese "    "     "     ": Pp 8,10


		P1003.1i Technical Corrections to Real Time System API
		Extensions: Draft 2			(No draft available)

		P2003R Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX
		Standards (revision of IEEE Std. 1003.3:1991): Draft 5
							(No draft available)

9410-30 Member bodies: Review SC22/WG15 N511 and provide any
	feedback to the SC22/WG15 Email distribution list.
							(Closed)
		This is the UK paper on application conformance testing.
		As indicated in the paper, the UK sees a distinct split
		in opinion between vendors, who are not interested in
		any formal application conformance testing, and users
		who are.  The UK awaits other MB comments with interest.

9410-32 Member bodies: Provide attendee list for October 1995
	meeting to Barry Needham by the May 1995 WG15 meeting.
							(Closed)
		The UK attendee list is not normally formally approved
		until much closer to the meeting - normally two to three
		months before the date.  It is likely, however, that the
		UK delegation will consist of at least two, possibly three
		people.

9410-35 Member bodies: Look at the technical aspects of
	SC22/WG15 N444 and the applicable portion of SC22/WG15 N515, in
	time for the May 1995 SC22/WG15 meeting.	(Open)
		The UK doubts that the data currently thought to form
		the CEN registry of Locales is accurate.  The en_GB,
		cy_GB, gd_GB and gv_IM locales presented in CEN/TC 304
		N339 (1994-06-06) are not the product of any UK
		Standardisation Authority and are known to contain
		errors.

		It seems a necessary and minimum requirement that only
		those Standardisation Authorities with responsibility
		for particular areas should be able to submit locales,
		etc., for those areas to a Registry;  it is entirely
		appropriate for any Standardisation Authority to comment
		on other locales, etc., but not to submit their own
		versions.

		The UK would therefore need to be convinced that there
		is a genuine requirement over a wide set of National
		Bodies to establish and maintain such a registry - for
		the data to be better than misleading it must be accurate
		and up-to-date.

9410-37 Member bodies: Indicate a preference as to which part of
	Canada should be considered for the Fall 1997 meeting by the May
	1995 meeting.					(Closed)
		The UK would welcome the opportunity to meet in eastern
		Canada.


David Cannon	Convener, UK BSI IST/5/-/15
3-May-1995