JTC1/SC22 N4227

From:
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces 
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI) 
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4227
  
TITLE: 
Austin Joint Working Group Liaison Report to the September 2007 SC 22
Plenary 

DATE ASSIGNED: 
2007-07-31 
  
SOURCE: 
Liaison Representative (A. Josey) 

BACKWARD POINTER: 
  
DOCUMENT TYPE: 
Other (open) 
  
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STATUS:  
This document is circulated for review and consideration.  It will be
discussed under agenda item 7.2.3 at the September 2007 SC 22 Plenary in
Singapore.

ACTION IDENTIFIER: 
FYI 
  
DUE DATE: 

DISTRIBUTION: 
Text 

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DISTRIBUTION FORM: 
open 
  
Address reply to: 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat 
Sally Seitz 
ANSI 
25 West 43rd Street 
New York, NY  10036 
Telephone:  (212) 642-4918 
Fax:             (212) 840-2298 
Email:  sseitz@ansi.org 

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Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group.              July 30, 2007
 


The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) is a joint technical
working group established to develop and maintain the core open systems
interfaces that are the POSIX(R) 1003.1 (and former 1003.2) standards,
ISO/IEC 9945 parts 1 to 4, and the core of the Single UNIX Specification,
Version 3.

The current activities are maintenance of the current approved standard and
production of a full revision to the standard. The goal of the full revision
is to produce a new approved standard in 2008.
The group continues to meet regularly by teleconference to consider defect
reports and issues on the current approved standard, and holding face to
face meetings twice a year on average to review ballot comments against the
draft revision. See the Austin Group home page at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ for the events diary (a Google Calendar
exists to which you can subscribe).
The current plan and timeline for the project is available at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_345.html


The Austin Group has been made aware of some issues and potential
incompatibilities between the POSIX standard and the future revision of
ISO/IEC 14882 (C++ Programming Language) with respect to threading APIs.
The Austin Group will be discussing these issues during their next meeting
in September 2007.


The current draft of the revision, draft 3 was made available in June
2007 and can be obtained at:
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/login.html
(a login id and password is required)

Further information on the Austin Group can be obtained at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/faq.html

The online version of the current standard can be obtained at
http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html



-- 
Andrew Josey                      The Open Group
Austin Group Chair                Thames Tower, 37-45 Station Road,
Email: a.josey@opengroup.org      Reading,Berks.RG1 1LX,England
Tel:   +44 118 9508311 ext 2250   Fax: +44 118 9500110

Sally Seitz
Program Manager
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 212 642 4918
Fax: 212 840 2298