jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) (09/22/85)
Here is the schedule for currently planned IEEE P1003 committee meetings and related events. (Courtesy of Doug Gwyn: I lost my notes on this.) 14-Oct Revised spec (P1003/D5) online and in IEEE office Start of document review, mass mailing to Working Group 01-Nov Technical review, Steering Committee meets in Dallas for editing session 04-Nov Master copy of document to IEEE 08-Nov Mail document for balloting Technical review and ballot resolution begins too 11-Dec End of balloting Ballot resolution continues 13..15-Jan P1003 meeting in Denver to review comments and proposed responses 21..31-Jan Window during which ballot responses can be changed 15-Feb Final document submitted to IEEE Standards Board 22-Mar IEEE Standards Board meeting P1003/D5 will be Draft Five and is intended to contain changes agreed upon at the recent meeting near Washington, D.C. I will make it available as the current draft when I get a copy of it. This will probably be after the Steering Committee meeting at the beginning of November. The "Final document" referred to here is the one which is intended to become the trial use standard. That will stand for some period of time, possibly a year, and then be followed by the real standard, which will be developed from experience gained from the trial use standard. The meeting in Dallas this November is of a small group and is basically for technical editing, to pull the document into a more self-consistent form. The next full meeting of the committee will be in January in Denver, in conjunction with the USENIX conference, and is hoped to be the last one before the trial use document is submitted to IEEE. This schedule may slip if any form of the document is not ready at its particular deadline. There will probably be a meeting in April, place indeterminate at the moment, and likely another in June in Atlanta in conjunction with the USENIX Conference there. Some P1003 committee members will be attending upcoming X3J11 committee meetings to help promote coordination between the two committees. Volume-Number: Volume 2, Number 4