Austin Group
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The Austin Group or the Austin Common Standards Revision Group[1][2] is a joint technical working group formed to develop and maintain a common revision of POSIX.1 and parts of the Single UNIX Specification. It is named after the location of the first meeting in Austin, Texas.[3]
The approach to specification development is "write once, adopt everywhere", with the deliverables being a set of specifications that carry the IEEE POSIX designation, The Open Group's Technical Standard designation, and the ISO/IEC designation. The new set of specifications is simultaneously ISO/IEC/IEEE 9945, and forms the core of the Single UNIX Specification Version 3. The IEEE formerly designated this standard as 1003.1.
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.
The group currently has approximately 500 participants, and is chaired by Andrew Josey from The Open Group. The Open Group manages the day-to-day running of the group, providing the chair, the editor and email and web facilities. There are no fees for participation or membership.
The decision-making process is divided between the three entities that publish the resulting standard:
Organisation | Representative |
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 | Nick Stoughton |
IEEE PASC | Don Cragun |
The Open Group | Martin Rehak |
References
- ^ "POSIX - Austin Joint Working Group". 2018-07-23. Archived from the original on 2018-07-23.
- ^ "The Austin Common Standards Revision Group, Issue Tracker".
- ^ "Joint Meeting of The Open Group Base Working Group, the PASC POSIX Revision Study Group, SC22/WG15 Coordination Ad-hoc" (PDF). September 2–3, 1998. Retrieved 4 January 2022.