27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
12:43 a.m.
ANSI accredits US standards committees and delegates, both to US and
International Meetings.
ANSI can vote to accept a standard. While I don't know the issue behind
POSIX, it's entirely possible that ANSI accredited IEEE to standardize
things. They have done this to many various groups for standards within
their wheelhouse. Sometimes this has worked well, sometimes it has worked
to the interest of some particular entity, speaking as someone who has
spent one to many days hanging out in standards meetings as a "technical
expert".
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:35 AM Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think historically ANSI did languages.
But, I don't know specifically why IEEE became the standards body for
POSIX. I did participate for a while in the IEEE standards process (not
POSIX, but something else), and I knew it as a large, very active, well
managed organization, always eager to take on new things (such as the thing
that I was engaged in). So maybe that was one reason.
Maybe a greater reason is that the part of IEEE standards that did
software was chaired by a person from DEC (forgot his name). I'm sure DEC
had a strong interest in a UNIX-based standard, if only to make sure that
it didn't go completely wild and negate DEC's huge head start in selling
machines to run UNIX.
Marc
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
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James D. (jj) Johnston
Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks
Good morning, I was wondering if anyone has the
scoop on the rationale
behind the selection of standards bodies for the publication of UNIX and
UNIX-adjacent standards. C was published via the ANSI route as X3.159,
whereas POSIX was instead published by the IEEE route as 1003.1. Was there
every any consideration of C through IEEE or POSIX through ANSI instead?
Is there an appreciable difference suggested by the difference in
publishers? In any case, both saw subsequent adoption by ISO/IEC, so the
track to an international standard seems to lead to the same organizations.
- Matt G.
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