Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: ahby@bungia.bungia.mn.org (Shane P. McCarron) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Standards Update, Part 1: Overview Message-ID: <268@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 10 Dec 88 23:24:34 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: Shane P. McCarron Lines: 96 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) [ These Standards Updates are published after each IEEE 1003 meeting, and are commissioned by the USENIX Association. Because the report, like the committees it reports on, has become long and involved, it is being posted in parts, currently nine, with perhaps more to follow. Feel free to reply or follow up to any part or to the whole thing. Much of the information in the report was collected through the USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee. If you want to participate, see the addresses in Part 1 below. -mod ] An update on UNIX|= Standards Activities - Part 1 Overview December 8, 1988 Shane P. McCarron, NAPS International This is the fourth in a series of articles on Unix related standards activities. In this edition I am going to cover a slightly wider area than usual. There have been developments at the ANSI X3 level, the National Bureau of Standards, and within the POSIX committees that all deserve attention. Because there is so much material this article has been divided into a series for posting to Usenet. I will apologize at the outset for the length of this series, but I feel that all of the information is timely and important. In addition to information on group activities, included with each report is a contact person from whom you can get more information about these developments, and the names of Watchdog Committee members through whom you can relay your opinions to the specific standards committees. On the subject of the Watchdog Committee, this series is now an activity of that group. Last quarter I used the article to solicit participation in the committee, and I am pleased to report that we have a number of new associate members. While I am not familiar with everyone now involved, I would like to thank those who contributed heavily to this series: Ted Baker, Mark Colburn, Doug Gwyn, Sol Kavy, Doris Lebovits, Kevin Lewis. We are still in search of members for this group. While we will accept all comers, we are particularly interested in filling out our rather lean international input department. If you would like to be involved in the Watchdog activities, or know of someone who might be a good candidate, please contact: John S. Quarterman Texas Internet Consulting 701 Brazos, Suite 500 Austin, TX 78701-3243 (512) 320-9031 jsq@longway.tic.com or __________ |= UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and other countries. - 2 - Mark Colburn NAPS International 117 Mackubin St. Suite 1 St. Paul, MN 55102 (612) 224-9108 mark@naps.mn.org IEEE P1003 - The POSIX Committees The POSIX committees met October 24th - 28th in Honolulu, Hawaii. At this meeting there were a record breaking 200+ attendees and meetings for eight working groups. Included in this series are updates on each of the groups within P1003, with the exception of IEEE P1003.6 and 1003.8. We are awaiting further information on those groups. Please look to the subsequent postings in this series for all of the reports. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact me at: Shane P. McCarron NAPS International 117 Mackubin St. Suite 6 St. Paul, MN 55102 +1 (612) 224-9239 ahby@bungia.mn.org uunet!bungia.mn.org!ahby Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 36