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- From: stephe@usenix.org (Stephen R. Walli)
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- Subject: Standards Update, POSIX.0: The POSIX Guide
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:24:02 -0800
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- Submitted-by: stephe@usenix.org (Stephen R. Walli)
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- Kevin Lewis <klewis@gucci.enet.dec.com> reports on the October 19-23,
- 1992 meeting in Utrecht, NL:
-
- The ballot submission period for POSIX.0 closed on September 15,
- 1992. Below are the ballot statistics:
-
- ----------------------------------------
- | 86 ballot group individuals |
- | 81 ballot group formal members |
- |---------------------------------------+
- | 69 ballots submitted = 85% returned |
- ----------------------------------------
- | 11 abstentions |
- | 30 negative |
- | 28 affirmative = 48% returned |
- | (16 affirmative w/ no comments) |
- |---------------------------------------+
- | 1127 comments/objections (approximate)|
- ----------------------------------------
-
- POSIX.0 dedicated all of the October meeting towards ballot
- resolution. The section leaders are serving as the technical
- reviewers for ballot resolution. They received 30 ballots via e-mail
- approximately 3 weeks prior to the meeting. (Three of the 30 were
- from individuals not on the ballot list. The group decided to treat
- them as ``parties of interest.'') Fifteen were received by the ballot
- coordinator on the Friday before the meeting, so the technical
- reviewers saw these for the first time in Utrecht.
-
- The group focused on identifying those objections felt to be
- substantive, key, or ``show stoppers.'' The areas that these fell into
- include profiles, the reference model, and public specifications.
-
- Let me note at this point that just about everyone in the group,
- including Yours Truly, demonstrated a clear case of memory shutdown,
- i.e. forgetting how we dealt with process and disposition issues
- during mock ballot. I attribute that to this last quarter requiring
- no working group activity aside from individuals' submitting their
- ballots. So it took the group about a day to ``re-boot.''
-
- In parallel, the guide is also in the review and comment process
- within WG15 and SC22. As of this writing, no comments have yet been
- received.
-
- The TCOS SEC approved a resolution to forward the next draft of the
- guide, which will be the first recirculation draft, to SC22 for CD
- registration.
-
- The group established the goal of completing ballot resolution within
- 7-10 days after the January 93 meeting. A tentative first
- recirculation meeting has been identified within the April 1993 time
- frame. This will be confirmed before the January meeting.
-
- Overall, the guide is in good shape. The big question, implicit as it
- may be, is how well we will fare beyond the 75% requirement for
- affirmative votes before the guide can be published. It is too early
- to say. I'll have a much better feel after the January meeting.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 7
-