ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 (Posix) Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA
				23-27 Oct 1995

				Meeting Report



	1. Introduction:

	Representatives of eight member bodies attended the sixteenth
	meeting of WG15 in Orlando, Fl, from:  Canada, Denmark, France,
	Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA.  Fifteen
	delegates attended all or part of the meeting.

	The meeting agenda included fifty-nine action items from the
	previous meeting, together with forty-four input papers.

	WG15 Plenary occupied the first three days of the week, and was
	followed on the 26th and 27th of October by a meeting of WG15's
	Rapporteur Group on Internationalisation.


	2. WG15 Plenary
	A number of work items have drafts coming to fruition, and WG15
	was particularly active in administering the progress of those
	items:

	2.1 Currently Active WG15 Work Items:

	 22.21.01.02.02   Real time ext.  (threads)	1003.1c/4a
		DAM Ballot closes 17-November 1995.

	 22.21.01.03.04   Directory Services
		SC22 withdrew this work item at its September 1995
		meeting.

	 22.21.01.04	  API Batch Administration Amd
		WG15 resolved to ask SC22 to withdraw this work item.

	 22.21.02.03	  Batch Services		1003.2d
		The PDAM Ballot has closed.  WG15 accepted the proposed
		Disposition of Comments, and the resulting document will
		be submitted for DAM ballot.

	 22.21.03.02	  Batch Services		1003.15a
		This work item is also requested to be withdrawn.

	 22.21.03.04	  Software Administration	1387.2
		CD Registration ballot closes on 17-Nov.

	 22.21.04.01	  C Language binding
			  R-T Technical Corrigenda	1003.1i
		The ballot closes on the 17-November; IST/5/-/15 has
		recommended a YES vote.

	 22.21.04.03	  Fortran Lang. binding 	1003.9
		Withdrawn by SC22 at its September 1995 meeting.

	 22.38		  TR14252 Guide to POSIX OSE	1003.0
		The DTR ballot closes 20-November.

	 22.39		  Extensions to base		1003.1a
		A draft suitable for registration will be available in
		February 1996.	WG15 resolved to approve the forwarding
		of Draft 13 ofthe document for PDAM registration.

	 22.41		  Additional utilities & I18n	1003.2b
		WG15 resolved to present Draft 11 for PDAM registration.

	 14515-1	  Test Methods for 9945-1	2003.1
		The CD ballot closed in April.	WG15 accepted the
		proposed Disposition of Comments.  The resulting
		document will be submitted for DIS ballot.

	 14515-2	  Test Methods for 9945-2	2003.2
		Concurrent CD registration and ballot was approved for
		this document.


	2.2 UK Concerns:

	Internationalisation issues continue to be a matter for concern:
	at the previous meeting the UK noted some problems with 1003.2b
	Draft 10, (the working draft on internationalisation extensions
	and additional utilities to the 9945-2:1993 Shell and Utilities
	standard).  In that draft a number of sections were flagged as
	awaiting input from Denmark and Japan, and had been so for some
	time.

	Between meetings, a subsequent Draft - 11 - has been issued
	which removed all references to expected input from Denmark and
	Japan, but failed to add any appropriate text.

	In parallel with this, at the May meeting, WG15's Rapporteur
	Group on Internationalisation (RIN), had elected to create an
	Issues list with the intention of tracking and condensing the
	history and status of fourteen issues which had occupied much of
	its time, especially where these applied to 1003.2b.  The bulk
	of the effort of creating the Issues list fell to the UK, which
	had identified the problem, and WG15 directed RIN to dedicate
	its time to amending and approving the list at its two-day
	meeting.

	This effort was extremely worth-while; by the end of the week
	RIN had closed twelve of the fourteen issues on the Issues list
	as submitted, and added only a further four, one of which was
	also closed after further consideration.  The result of the
	exercise will be to present WG15 at its next plenary with a set
	of recommendations for clearly identified internationalisation
	requirements in the 1003.2b (Additional Shell & Utilities
	Functionality) draft, and should enable the work to begin its
	progress through the registration and ballot process.  With this
	intent, WG15 authorised submission of Draft 11 for PDAM
	registration.


	3. UK Delegation:

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


	David Cannon
	27-Oct-1995