LX/05-0030

LINUX STUDY GROUP REPORT TO THE INCITS EB - OCTOBER 2005

Dave Thewlis
Convenor, INCITS Linux Study Group

1.    At its September 2004 meeting, the INCITS Executive Board continued the INCITS Study Group on Linux in existence as the appropriate entity to develop the recommended US positions and comments on the Linux Standard Base PAS Submission from the Free Standards Group.

2    INCITS SG membership is now five voting and one advisory:

Voting Members:

• Hewlett Packard
• IBM
  
• Intel
• Sun Microsystems
  
• USENIX

Advisory Members:

• Oracle Corporation
  

3.   The last report submitted to the INCITS Executive Board was the Annual Report for the Study Group submitted in late May.  Since that time, the Study Group had two meetings by teleconference on June 7 and 28 to prepare for the DIS 23360 Ballot Resolution meeting in Singapore.

4.   The INCITS Study Group on Linux sent a delegation of three people to the Ballot Resolution Meeting for DIS 23360 in Singapore:

• David Thewlis, Intel (HoD)
• Donald Cragun, Sun Microsystems
• Mats Wichmann, Intel Corporation

The Ballot Resolution Meeting was extremely successful, and the three outstanding "no" votes from the Letter Ballot were converted to "yes" votes.  The Head of Delegation Report for this meeting is document IN/05-0753.

5.   The INCITS Study Group on Linux has no meeting scheduled at this time.  I do not anticipate a need for a meeting or teleconference until the first corrigenda report agains IS 23360 is submitted. 

Respectfully Submitted,

Dave Thewlis
Convenor, INCITS Study Group on Linux