The convoluted world of standards committees is hard to keep abreast with, and so the US Usenix Association has got together with the European Unix User Group to employ a single representative, Dominic Dunlop of The Standard Answer, to attend all the meetings of the International Standards Organisation Unix and C meetings and keep them informed: some idea of how involved that work will be can be gained from the full title of the ISO group working on the standards, in effect an IEEE Posix standard for Europe – it’s Working Group 15 of Sub-Committee 22 of Technical Committee 1 of the International Standards Organisation and the International Electrotechnical Commission, known as ISO/IEC TCI SC22 WG15 for short (no, no, you’ve come to the wrong room – this is the ISO/IEC TCI SC23 WG15 committee in here)
