Draft 6 of the joint Revision to POSIX® and the Single UNIX® Specification Version 3 now available
Apr 19th, 12:34 UTC
April 18 2001 (Menlo Park, CA). Key milestone achieved in next revision to POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification.
The Austin Common Standards Revision Group
(http://www.opengroup.org/austin) today announced availability of Draft 6
of the joint revision to POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. This is
the second recirculation of the complete draft of the specification and
is known as the Sanity Review draft. Draft 6 totals some 3698 pages.
The one month review period commences on April 20 and completes
at 8am UK time on May 21st 2001. A plenary review meeting is being
held during the week commencing May 29th to process the comments
arising from the Draft 6 review period. Comments should be sent
to the review reflector and use the aardvark comment format (see
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/format.html for more
information).
The draft can be obtained from the Austin Group web site at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/login.html -- To obtain a copy of the draft you
need to subscribe to the the Austin Group mailing list .
Notes to Editors:
POSIX is a registered trademark of the IEEE
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
About The Austin Group
The Austin Common Standards Revision Group (CSRG) 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.
This unique development combines both the industry led
efforts and the formal standardization activities into a single
initiative, and includes a wide spectrum of participants.
Participation is open to all interested parties and free.
The approach to specification development is "write once,
adopt everywhere", with the deliverables being a set of
specifications that will carry both the IEEE POSIX
designation and The Open Group's Technical Standard
designation, and if adopted an ISO/IEC designation. The new
set of specifications will form the core of the Single UNIX
Specification Version 3, with delivery in Q2 2001
(Submitted by Andrew Josey of The Open Group)
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