std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (09/09/88)
From: Steve Carter <uunet!usenix!bellcore!pyuxv!ctsd!slc2> [ In response to a request for information about the new POSIX System Administration subcommittee, its chair has sent this letter. I don't know what its original date was. -mod ] Proposed working group on System Administration 6 Corporate Place Room PYA 1J-254 Piscataway, NJ 08854 (201) 699-6732 bellcore!pyuxv!slc2 September 10, 1988 IEEE POSIX 1003 Steering Committee and Working groups Attached is a copy of the IEEE POSIX System Administration Standards Project Authorization Request (PAR). It briefly describes the scope and purpose of the proposed System Administration working group. In order to get this work started, we need to identify the resources and related activities that we can utilize. First, we need to establish the administrative responsibilities for this group. Listed below are the names of people who have indicated an interest in helping in the roles of Chair, Co-chair and Secretary. In addition, we are looking for volunteers for technical editor and technical reviewers. If you have recommendations for individuals who could help out in these areas we would appreciate your input. This effort will probably have just one main group. In general, the Chair and Co-chair roles are best served by persons with management experience. Strong technical experts are better able to advocate positions as members rather than from the chair. There is a slight preference to have users serve as chairs where we can find supported candidates. All of these roles should be supported by the individual's employeer, since there is a need for attendance, and also for other activities that take time. For example, chairpersons attend IEEE Computer Society Standards Coordinating Committee (SCC) meetings (two days long, twice a year) and spend hours preparing documents for secretaries and technical editors. Identified to date are: Chair Steven Carter Bellcore Co-Chair Ken Faubel Apollo Computer, Inc. Co-Chair David Hinnant Northern Telecom, Inc Secretary Mark Colburn Analysts International Corp. Also, we realize that corporations and institutional representatives may be working on specifications that could be of use to this effort. If you are aware of a group doing work in this area that might be able to contribute proposals, please get that information back to me. Groups that have been identified so far include: - 2 - /usr/group Performance Metrics Ram Chelluri David Hinnant National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Tony Cincotta Open Software Foundation (OSF) Alex Morrow Unisys Bob Krieger USENIX John Quarterman X/Open Michael Lambert Please send information about prospective administrative assistance to at least the Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS) Chair, Joe Boykin, and the TCOS-Standards Subcommittee Chair, Jim Isaak: Joe Boykin Jim Isaak Encore Computer Corp Digital Equipment Corp, ZK03-3/Y25 257 Cedar Hill St. 110 Spitbrook Road Marlborough, MA 01752 Nashua, NH 03049 uucp: encore!boykin uucp: decvax!isaak ARPA: boykin@multimax.arpa Please send information about related efforts and possible sources for proposals to me, the POSIX System Administration PAR initiator. Steven L. Carter POSIX System Administration PAR Initiator SLC-slc Copy (with att.) to /usr/group Technical Steering Committee Tony Barrese Al Hankinson Dale Harris Kevin Lewis John Williams Institutional Representatives Heinz Lycklama /usr/group Institutional Representative to P1003.1 John Quarterman USENIX Institutional Representative to P1003.1 Mike Lambert X/Open Chief, Technical Officer Alex Morrow OSF Director of Strategic Relations IEEE POSIX Committee Chairpersons Jim Isaak Chair P1003.1 Donn Terry Co-Chair P1003.1 Hal Jespersen Chair P1003.2 Continued next page - 3 - Copy (with att.) to - contd. Don Cragun Co-Chair P1003.2 Roger Martin Chair P1003.3 Carol Raye Co-Chair P1003.3 Bill Corwin Chair P1003.4 Mike Cossey Co-Chair P1003.4 Terence Fong Chair P1003.5 Stowe Boyd Co-Chair P1003.5 Dennis Steinauer Chair P1003.6 Ron Elliott Co-Chair P1003.6 Al Hankinson Chair P1003.0 Kevin Lewis Co-Chair P1003.0 IEEE Computer Society Paul Borrill Chair, IEEE CS Standards Coordinating Committee (SCC) Joe Boykin Chair, Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS) Don Fleckenstein Chair, IEEE Standards Board Jane Post Secretary, New Standards Committee Bob Prichard Computer Society Secretariat Helen Wood VP for Standards System Administration Interest Group Allen Barofsky James C. Bohem Kevin H. Brady Sivaram Chelluri Tony Cincotta Mark Colburn Pat Conway Tom Eisenhart Ken Faubel Don Folland Bob Gambrel John L. Hill David Hinnant Timothy R. Honey Randall Howard John Jastrow Jeff Kimmel Martin Kirk Rick Kuhn Greger Leijonhufvud Gary W. Miller Alex Morrow Martha Nalebuff Karen L. Sheaffer Teoman N. Topcubasi Alix Vasilatos Andrew E. Wheeler, Jr.