Austin Group details plan and scope for next revision of joint standard

** Austin Group details plan and scope for next revision of joint standard

The Austin Group met at the Standards Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, on
February 21-24 2006 to consider the goals and plan the precise
milestones for the next revision of the joint standard
(that is  ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX), IEEE Std 1003.1 and The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 6).

Major outputs from the meeting included the project plan and the long
scope.

The project plan detailing the draft schedule, contents and ballot
cycle is available as document Austin/284 :
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_284.html

The first draft of the long scope for the projects is available as Austin/285
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_285.txt


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