LX/06-0002

LINUX STUDY GROUP REPORT TO THE INCITS EB - APRIL 2006

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 six organizations:
3.   The last report submitted to the INCITS Executive Board was the report for the January 2006 meeting.  Since then the Study Group has had no meetings.

4.  The Study Group on Linux prepared a recommendation to the INCITS Executive Board on JTC 1 N 8017, Technical Report on Conflicts between ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX) and ISO/IEC 23360 (Linux Standard Base) for the subsequent EB ballot.  The recommendation, transmitted to the INCITS Secretariat on 25 January 2006, was a unanimous vote to approve without comments.  The United States subsequently voted to approve JTC 1 N 8017,  and it was ultimately approved via JTC 1 N 8106.

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 against IS 23360 is submitted unless administrative requirements necessitate a teleconference.

Respectfully Submitted,

Dave Thewlis
Convenor, INCITS Study Group on Linux