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                            BSI IST/5/-/15 (POSIX)

                         POSIX Panel Activity Report
                                 7 June 1999

        1. Introduction

        IST/5/-/15 has not met since the last IST/5 meeting. The main
	status to report since the last meeting is the progress made
	by the Austin Group (see below).

        2. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15

	The next meeting is scheduled for July 23rd in Montreal, which
	coincides with the IEEE PASC and Austin Group meetings.

        3. The Austin Group

        The Austin Group is a joint technical working group established
        to consider the matter of a common revision of ISO/IEC 9945-1,
        ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE Std 1003.1, IEEE Std 1003.2 and the
        appropriate parts of the Single UNIX Specification.

	ISO JTC1/SC22/WG15 is an active participant in the Austin group.
	At its last meeting, WG15 established two rapporteur groups by
	resolution 99-406 to participate in and report to WG15 on the
	revision process (REV) and on the procedural issues arising
	from and necessary for the joint revision process (RPC).
	The two Rapporteur groups are lead by Nick Stoughton (UK) and
	David Blackwood (Can) respectively.

	At the April IEEE PASC meeting the sponsor executive committee approved
	the Project Authorization request for the joint revision and
	this has been submitted to the IEEE Standards Board for
	consideration at their meeting on June 25th.

	On June 1st, The Open Group and the IEEE signed a Memorandum
	of Understanding  regarding the common revision to the POSIX and
	Base specifications of the Single UNIX Specification.

	Under this agreement The Open Group and IEEE will
	share joint copyright of the resulting work which will
	replace the existing IEEE 1003.1 and 1003.2 standards,
	and The Open Group Base specifications. It is expected that the
	joint work will also be put forward for adoption as an ISO/IEC standard
	as part of the revision process.

	Also on June 1st the draft one specifications were made
	available from the Austin Group web site, see
	URL: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/login.html.

	The review period commences June 1st and completes on
	Wednesday July 14th.

	The next meeting of the Austin Group will be in Montreal on
	July 20-22 co-located with the IEEE PASC meeting and the ISO
	WG15 meeting.



        4. ISO Business, Recommended Votes, etc:

        No new business occurred.

        5. Future POSIX-Related Meetings:

            1999:
                18-23 July      IEEE Posix Groups       Montreal, Canada
                20-22 July      Austin Group            Montreal, Canada
                23 July         ISO JTC-1/SC22/WG15     Montreal, Canada
                20-24 September ISO JTC1/SC22           Berlin, Germany
                October         IEEE Posix Groups       ??
                6-10 December   Austin Group            ??
           2000:
                27-31 March     Austin Group            ??
                10-15 July      Austin Group            ??
                23-27 Oct       Austin Group            ??

        Andrew Josey (on behalf of the Panel Convenor)
        7-June-1999