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From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: FIPS Announcement
Message-ID: <549@longway.TIC.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 21:13:31 GMT
References: <547@longway.TIC.COM>
Reply-To: Doug Gwyn <uunet!brl.mil!gwyn>
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn>

In article <547@longway.TIC.COM> Rick Kuhn <kuhn@swe.ncsl.nist.gov> writes:
>proposed FIPS will exclude features that are expected to change in the final 
>version of 1003.2, as was done with the FIPS proposal based on Draft 8.

Could somebody please explain why these "POSIX" FIPS keep getting based on
non-final versions of the IEEE 1003.n standards?  That really interferes
with the standardization process!

Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 61