[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2[PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009] (Roland Mainz)

[Don Cragun]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Don Cragun" <dcragun at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>> Don Cragun was RIF'ed and right now I don't know anyone at Sun who can
>>> be queried for standards issues.
>>>       
>> Even though I am no longer at Sun, I'm still interested in OpenSolaris.  I'm
>> remaining involved in Austin Group activities on my own dime.
>>     
>
> Sun was and still may be a paying andthus voting member of the OpenGroup.
>   
As far as I know, it still is.  I have no idea who Sun has (or
will) appoint to be the Sun representative to The Open Group's
Base Working Group.
> Who from Sun is now officially taking the word for making proposals that are 
> intented to become a POSIX enhancement?
>   
Anyone who wants to can present a proposal to the Austin Group.
New material would need sponsorship from one of the three member
organizations (IEEE, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22, or The Open Group) to be
included in the next revision of the standards (presumably
~2013).  I am the organizational representative for IEEE; Nick
Stoughton is the OR for ISO; and Mark Brown is the OR for TOG, so
the submitter would need to convince one of us three to get their
member body to sponsor any such proposal.
> Another question is: why did the strl*() functions from Sun not make it into 
> the current POSIX standard? Was there no related proposal from Sun?
>   
Darren already answered this.

 - Don
> Jörg