IEEE
and The Open Group to Extend POSIX Certification to the Latest
POSIX Standard
Contact:
Maryann Karinch, The Open Group
+1 650 726-7020, m.karinch@opengroup.org
or
Karen McCabe, IEEE Senior Marketing Manager
+1 732 562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
NJ and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 11 August 2003
POSIX® certification is about to take another step forward.
The Open Group and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will offer a program
to certify products to the 2003 edition of IEEE 1003.1™-2001,
"Standard for Information Technology-Portable Operating System
Interface (POSIX)," which incorporates the IEEE 1003.1 Corrigendum.
The new program
updates the existing one and will take effect early November.
Under the
new program, suppliers will substantiate claims of conformance
to POSIX based on defined test suites so buyers gain assurance
that products they specify and procure meet the standard and are
warranted by the vendor to do so. POSIX certification complements
certifications for other products that draw on the POSIX standard,
such as those for LSB®, the COE Platform and the UNIX®
system.
The IEEE-SA
and The Open Group have long experience with standards and certifications.
IEEE-SA, a leading global standards development organization,
has been the certification authority for POSIX since January 1998.
The Open Group operates eight major certification programs, including
those for UNIX and LSB. It has also developed and maintained conformance
test suites for the X Window System, Motif®, Linux and other
technologies.
"The
new POSIX certification program is affordable and practical for
products associated with many systems, including Linux and UNIX
system products," said Allen Brown, President and CEO of
The Open Group. "Given the broad use POSIX certification
now enjoys, we anticipate the new program will be widely accepted
in government, industry and elsewhere."
Jerry Peterson,
IEEE-SA President, notes that suppliers will be expected to warranty
their products for conformance to POSIX. "They will have
to guarantee that their products conform to the standard throughout
their life," he says. "Any certified product that falls
out of conformance will have to be fixed promptly under the warranty."
IEEE-SA will
lead the marketing effort for the program and will license the
POSIX mark for use with certified products. The Open Group will
be the certification authority and will develop and administer
the two test suites needed for certification.
One test suite,
VSX-PCTS, will test the mandatory C language system interfaces
and headers. The other suite, VSC-PCTS, will test the mandatory
utilities and the shell command language. Both test suites follow
the methods defined in the IEEE 2003 standard and use the Test
Environment Toolkit (TET), a multi-platform test execution management
system created by The Open Group.
About IEEE 1003.1
The 2003 edition of IEEE 1003.1 was developed by the Austin Group,
a joint working group of the IEEE, The Open Group and ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC22/WG15. It includes IEEE 1003.1-2001 and IEEE 1003.1-2001/Cor
1-2002. This edition replaces IEEE 1003.1-1996, "IEEE Standard
for POSIX--Part 1: System Application: Program Interface (API)
[C Language]," and IEEE 1003.2-1992, "IEEE Standard
for POSIX--Part 2". The 2003 edition is also simultaneously
referred to as ISO/IEC 9945:2003 (*) and The Open Group Technical
Standard Base Specifications Issue 6.
About The
Open Group
The Open Group, a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium,
has a vision of Boundaryless Information Flow achieved through
global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner.
The Open Group's mission is to drive the creation of Boundaryless
Information Flow by working with customers to capture, understand
and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies,
and share best practices; working with suppliers, consortia and
standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability,
to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies;
offering a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational
efficiency of consortia; and developing and operating the industry's
premier certification service and encouraging procurement of certified
products. More information on our organization can be found at
www.opengroup.org
About the
IEEE Standards Association
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), a global standards-setting
body, develops consensus standards through an open process that
brings diverse parts of an industry together. It has a portfolio
of more than 870 completed standards and more than 400 in development.
IEEE-SA promotes the engineering process by creating, developing,
integrating, sharing and applying knowledge about electro- and
information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity
and the profession. For further information on IEEE-SA visit:
http://standards.ieee.org/.
About the
IEEE
The IEEE has more than 380,000 members in approximately 150 countries.
Through its members, the organization is a leading authority on
areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications
to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE
produces nearly 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical
and electronics engineering, computing and control technology
fields. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors
more than 300 technical conferences each year. Additional information
about the IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org/.
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Notes
to editors:
The
Open Group is a trademark of The Open Group.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and
other countries.
POSIX is a registered trademark of the IEEE Inc.
LSB is a trademark of the Free Standards Group.
The ISO/IEC 9945:2003 will be published on 15-August-2003
All
other names or product names are the trademarks, service marks
or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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