Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!longway!std-unix From: std-unix@uunet.uu.net (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Access to UNIX-Related Standards Message-ID: <252@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 9 Nov 88 02:44:08 GMT Expires: 12 Dec 88 21:45:37 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Lines: 507 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) From: std-unix@uunet.uu.net (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles. Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. There are three companion articles, posted at the same time as this one and with subjects Calendar of UNIX-related Events Access to UNIX User Groups Access to UNIX-Related Publications Also note that Shane McCarron now writes a quarterly summary report for USENIX soon after each IEEE 1003 meeting for posting in comp.std.unix and in ;login:, the Newsletter of the USENIX Association. Changes from last posting: IEEE 1003.1 Full Use Standard. Donn Terry is now 1003.1 chair; Jim Isaak is still 1003 chair. New IEEE 1003.7 and proposed 1003.8. NBS is now NIST. POSIX FIPS. New X/OPEN address and Institutional Representative. Access information is given in this article for the following standards: IEEE 1003.1 (operating system interface), 1003.2 (shell and tools), 1003.3 (testing and verification), 1003.4 (real time), 1003.5 (ADA binding), 1003.6 (security), 1003.7 (system administration), 1003.8 (networking), 1003.0 (POSIX guide). NIST FIPS. /usr/group Technical Committee Subcommittees on distributed file system, network interface, graphics/windows, database, internationalization, performance measurements, realtime, security, and super computing. X3H3.6 (display committee) X3J11 (C language) /usr/group 1984 Standard System V Interface Definition (SVID, or The Purple Book) X/OPEN PORTABILITY GUIDE (The Green Book) 4.3BSD Manuals UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T. IEEE is a trademark of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. POSIX is no longer a trademark of IEEE or of anyone else. X/OPEN is a licensed trademark of the X/OPEN Group Members. The IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee is sometimes known colloquially as the UNIX Standards Committee. They published the 1003.1 "POSIX" Full Use Standard in October 1988 after its formal approval 22 August 1988. This is an interface and environment standard; implementation details are explicitly excluded. Although it is based on documentation for various versions of the UNIX Operating System, it is explicitly not UNIX, which is an implementation licensed by a certain vendor. Source level application portability is the goal. Bulk orders may be made from the IEEE Computer Society in Los Angeles at +1-714-821-8380 Unfortunately, this only works for multiple copies. But the following mail address works for single copies: IEEE Computer Society P.O. Box 80452 Worldway Postal Center Los Angeles, Ca. 90080 Or contact: IEEE Service Center 445 Hoes Ln. Piscataway, NJ 08854 +1-201-981-0060 The price is reputed to be $16 (plus tax, shipping, and handling). IEEE has brought the 1003.1 effort into the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) arena. IEEE 1003.1 Draft 12 is also a ``Draft Proposed International Standard (ISO DP)'' under SC22 WG15. The convenor is Jim Isaak: see below for his address. There is a U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO SC22 WG15: the chair is Donn Terry of HP, who is also the current chair of IEEE 1003.1. Donn Terry hpda!hpfcla!donn +1-303-229-2367 Hewlett Packard Systems Division 3404 E. Harmony Road Fort Collins, CO 80525 TAG meetings tend to be held wherever 1003.1 is meeting. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, formerly the National Bureau of Standards) has produced a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) based on IEEE 1003.1 Draft 12, and approved 31 August 1988 as FIPS #151, Portable Operating System for Computer Environments. An update to the state of the 1003.1 Full Use Standard is expected. For information, contact: Roger Martin National Institute of Standards and Technology Technology Building, Room B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301)975-3295 +1-301-975-3295 rmartin@swe.icst.nbs.gov NIST has a POSIX Conformance Test Suite (PCTS) for 1003.1. NIST is also producing a FIPS based on IEEE 1003.2, probably from the draft made by 1003.2 at their March 1988 meeting. NIST sponsors a number of standards-related workshops, including: 1988 Sep 22 System Administration and Shell & Tools 1988 Sep 23 X Windows and POSIX FIPS 1988 Oct 5 POSIX Conformance Testing & Laboratory Accreditation 1988 Nov 15 POSIX Applications 1988 Nov 16 POSIX FIPS Revision 1989 Jan 17 Terminal Interface Extensions and Network Services 1989 May 16 POSIX Applications Machine readable copies of the IEEE 1003.1 Full Use Standard are not and will not be available. There is a paper mailing list by which interested parties may get copies of drafts of the standard. To get on it, or to submit comments directly to the committee, mail to: James Isaak Chairperson, IEEE/CS P1003 Tel.: (603)881-0480 Fax.: (603)881-0120 decvax!isaak isaak@decvax.dec.com Digital Equipment ZK03-3/Y25 110 Spit Brook Rd. Nashua, NH 03062-2698 Sufficiently interested parties may join the working group. The term POSIX actually applies to all of the P1003 subcommittees: group subject co-chairs 1003.0 POSIX Guide Al Hankinson (NBS), Kevin Lewis (DEC) 1003.1 Systems Interface Donn Terry (HP) 1003.2 Shell and Tools Interface Hal Jespersen (UniSoft), Don Cragun (Sun) 1003.3 Verification and Testing Roger Martin (NBS), Carol Raye (AT&T) 1003.4 Real Time Bill Corwin (Intel) 1003.5 Ada Binding for POSIX Terry Fong (USArmy), Stowe Boyd(Compass) 1003.6 Security Dennis Steinauer (NBS), Ron Elliot (IBM) 1003.7 System Administration Steve Carter (Bellcore) 1003.8 Networking Dave Dodge (committee not yet approved) Inquiries regarding any of the subcommittees should go to the same address as for 1003.1. The next scheduled meetings of the P1003 working groups are: 1989 Jan 9-13 IEEE 1003 Embassy Suites, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1989 Apr 24-28 IEEE 1003 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 1989 Jul 10-14 IEEE 1003 San Francisco, CA 1989 Oct 16-20 IEEE 1003 Brussels (or Amsterdam) 1990 Jan 29 IEEE 1003 New Orleans, LA 1990 Apr IEEE 1003 Montreal, Quebec Here are some details from Hal Jespersen regarding P1003.2: The IEEE P1003.2 "Shell and Utilities" Working Group is developing a proposed standard to complement the 1003.1 POSIX standard. It will consist of a shell command language (currently planned to be based on the Bourne Shell), groups of utility programs, or commands, programmatic interfaces to the shell (system(), popen()) and related facilities (regular expressions, file name expansion, etc.) defined environments (variables, file hierarchies, etc) that applications may rely upon utilities for installing application programs onto conforming systems which will allow application programs to be developed out of existing pieces, in the UNIX tradition. The scope of the standard emphasizes commands and features that are more typically used by shell scripts or C language programs than those that are oriented to the terminal user with windows, mice, visual shells, and so forth. There has been some controversy in the Working Group about clarifying the scope of the 1003.2 standard in regard to its relationship with 1003.1. The Working Group is attempting to produce a standard that will assume the structure and philosophy of a POSIX system is available, but it will not require a fully conforming implementation as a base. For example, it should be feasible to eventually produce a 1003.2 interface on a V7 system, or on a system very close to POSIX, but missing a few crucial features (as long as the shell and utilities didn't need them). However, the proposed standard will *not* be unnecessarily watered down simply to allow non-POSIX systems to conform. There are four Institutional Representatives to P1003: John Quarterman from USENIX, Heinz Lycklama from /usr/group, Mike Lambert from X/OPEN, and David Chen from OSF. The two from USENIX and /usr/group are also representatives to the U.S. TAG to ISO SC22 WG15. There is a USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee of volunteers who report on issues raised in standards committee meetings; composite reports are published quarterly in comp.std.unix, in ;login: (the USENIX Association Newsletter), and in the trade press. Occasionally, these volunteers may speak for USENIX, if authorized by the USENIX Standards Policy Committee, which currently consists of Alan G. Nemeth (USENIX President), John S. Quarterman, Shane P. McCarron (IEEE 1003 Secretary), and Grover Righter. Comments, suggestions, etc., may be sent to John S. Quarterman Texas Internet Consulting 701 Brazos, Suite 500 Austin TX 78701-3243 +1-512-320-9031 uunet!usenix!jsq jsq@usenix.org jsq@longway.tic.com For comp.std.unix: Comments: uunet!std-unix-request std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net Submissions: uunet!std-unix std-unix@uunet.uu.net CommUNIXations (the /usr/group magazine) contains reports about every other issue by Heinz Lycklama on the /usr/group Technical Committee meetings. If you are interested in starting another /usr/group working group, contact Heinz Lycklama: Heinz Lycklama Interactive Systems Corp. 2401 Colorado Ave., 3rd Floor Santa Monica, CA 90404 +1-213-453-8649 decvax!cca!ima!heinz Here is contact information for /usr/group working groups as taken from the CommUNIXations article mentioned above. /usr/group Working Group on Distributed File System: Art Sabsevitz Frederick Glover AT&T Information Systems MK02-1/H10 190 River Road Digital Equipment Corporation Summit, NJ 07933 Continental Boulevard 201-522-6248 Merrimack, NH 03054-0430 attunix!bump 603-884-5111 decvax!fglover /usr/group Working Group on Network Interface: Steve Albert AT&T Information Systems 190 River Road, Rm. A-114 Summit, NJ 07901 (201)522-6104 attunix!ssa /usr/group Working Group on Internationalization: John Wu Laurie Goudie Charles River Data Systems Santa Cruz Operation 983 Concord St., 400 Encinal Framingham, MA 01701 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 617-626-1000 408-458-1422 /usr/group Working Group on Graphics/Windows: Tom Greene Apollo Computer, Inc. 330 Billerica Road Chelmsford, MA 01824 (617)256-6600, ext. 7581 /usr/group Working Group on Realtime: Bill Corwin Intel Corp. 5200 Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97123 (503)681-2248 /usr/group Working Group on Database: Val Skalabrin Unify Corp. 1111 Howe Ave. Sacramento, CA 95825 (916)920-9092 /usr/group Working Group on Performance Measurements: Ram Chelluri David F. Hinnant AT&T Computer Systems Northern Telecom, Inc. Room E15B Dept. 0226 4513 Western Ave. P.O. Box 13010 Lisle, IL 60532 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3010 (312)810-6223 (919) 992-1690 ...{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!rti!ntirtp!dfh /usr/group Working Group on Security: Steve Sutton Ms. Jeanne Baccash Consultant, Addamax AT&T UNIX Systems Engineering 1107 S. Orchard 190 River Road Urbana, IL 61801 Summit, NJ 07901 217-344-0996 201-522-6028 attunix!jeanne /usr/group Working Group on Super Computing: Karen Sheaffer Robin O'Neill Sandia National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore Laboratory P.O. Box 969 P.O. Box 5509, L560 Livermore, CA 94550 Livermore, CA 94550 415-422-3431 415-422-0973 oneill#r%mfe@lll-mfe.arpa The X3H3.6 display management committee has recently formed to develop a model to support current and future window management systems, yet is not based directly on any existing system. The chair solicits help and participation: Georges Grinstein wanginst!ulowell!grinstein The Abstract of the 1003.1 Trial Use Standard adds: This interface is a complement to the C Programming Language in the C Information Bulletin prepared by Technical Committee X3J11 of the Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Processing Systems, further specifying an environment for portable application software. X3J11 is sometimes known as the C Standards Committee. Their liaison to P1003 is Don Kretsch AT&T 190 River Road Summit, NJ 07901 A contact for information regarding publications and working groups is Thomas Plum Vice Chair, X3J11 Committee Plum Hall Inc. 1 Spruce Avenue Cardiff, New Jersey 08232 The current document may be ordered from Global Engineering Documents 2805 McGaw Irvine, CA 92714 USA +1-714-261-1455 +1-800-854-7179 Ask for the X3.159 draft standard. The price is $65. The current X3J11 meeting schedule is: 1988 December 12-16 Seattle, WA 1989 April 10-11 Phoenix, AZ The /usr/group Standard is a principal ancestor of P1003.1, X/OPEN, and X3J11. It may be ordered for $15.00 from: /usr/group Standards Committee 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200 Santa Clara, California 95054 Tel: (408)986-8840 Fax: (408)986-1645 /usr/group also publishes an eight page document, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' explaining what IEEE 1003 is, and a nineteen page document, ``POSIX Explored,'' about technical aspects of IEEE 1003.1, and its relations to other standards and historical implementations. Contact /usr/group at the above address for details. The System V Interface Definition (The Purple Book, or SVID). This is the AT&T standard and is one of the most frequently-used references of the IEEE 1003 committee. AT&T Customer Information Center Attn: Customer Service Representative P.O. Box 19901 Indianapolis, IN 46219 U.S.A. 800-432-6600 (Inside U.S.A.) 800-255-1242 (Inside Canada) +1-317-352-8557 (Outside U.S.A. and Canada) System V Interface Definition, Issue 2 should be ordered by the following select codes: Select Code: Volume: Topics: 320-011 Volume I Base System Kernel Extension 320-012 Volume II Basic Utilities Extension Advanced Utilities Extension Software Development Extension Administered System Extension Terminal Volume Interface Extension 320-013 Volume III Base System Addendum Terminal Interface Extension Network Services Extension 307-131 I, II, III (all three volumes) The price is about 37 U.S. dollars for each volume or $84 for all three. Major credit cards are accepted for telephone orders: mail orders should include a check or money order, payable to AT&T. The X/OPEN PORTABILITY GUIDE (The Green Book) is another reference frequently used by IEEE 1003. The X/OPEN Group is "Ten of the world's major information system suppliers" (at time of publication, Bull, DEC, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, ICL, NIXDORF, Olivetti, Philips, Siemens and Unisys and subsequently augmented by AT&T) who have produced a document intended to promote the writing of portable applications. They closely follow both SVID and POSIX, and cite the /usr/group standard as contributing, but X/OPEN's books cover a wider area than any of those. The book is published by Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Book Order Department P.O. Box 1991 1000 BZ Amsterdam The Netherlands and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by: Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc. 52 Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY 10017 U.S.A. There are currently five volumes: 1) System V Specification Commands and Utilities 2) System V Specification System Calls and Libraries 3) System V Specification Supplementary Definitions 4) Programming Languages 5) Data Management They take a large number of credit cards and other forms of payment. Comments, suggestions, error reports, etc., for Issue 2 of the Green Book may be mailed directly to: xpg2@xopen.co.uk uunet!mcvax!inset!xopen!xpg2 Information about X/OPEN can be requested from: Mike Lambert X/Open Abbot's House Abbey Road Reading, Berkshire ENGLAND +44 256 843-142 mgl@xopen.co.uk uunet!mcvax!inset!xopen!mgl Finally, 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD have influenced POSIX in a number of areas. The best reference on them is the 4.3BSD manuals, published by USENIX. An order form may be obtained from: Howard Press c/o USENIX Association P.O. Box 2299 Berkeley, CA 94710 +1-415-528-8649 uunet!usenix!office office@usenix.org 4.3BSD User's Manual Set (3 volumes) $25.00 User's Reference Manual User's Supplementary Documents Master Index 4.3BSD Programmer's Manual Set (3 volumes) $25.00 Programmer's Reference Maual Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 4.3BSD System Manager's Manual (1 volume) $10.00 Unfortunately, there are some license restrictions. Contact the USENIX office for details. Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 19