Draft 4 Reviewers Notes = Please Read

These notes accompany Draft 4. These notes should be read prior to reviewing the document set.

The review period for Draft 4 commences August 1st and completes September 26th. A plenary meeting is being held in the week of October 9th.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO IEEE AND ISO BALLOTERS: PLEASE REFER TO THE BALLOTING INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR ORGANIZATION. PLEASE DO NOT FILE DUPLICATE BALLOTS INTO MORE THAN ONE BALLOT POINT. IEEE AND ISO BALLOTS WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE AUSTIN GROUP FOR RESOLUTION.

Balloters in The Open Group process and all other interested parties (including Austin Group participants who may be participating in the other organizational ballots, but who wish to submit direct comments not duplicated in the other ballot) should file comments directly to the Austin Group.

Summary of the Changes

Detailed change history is given on each manual page. A summary of the changes included in this draft is as follows:

  1. Draft four integrates materials from the following base documents:
  2. In order to facilitate the IEEE electronic ballot process, page numbering for this draft is sequential through the volume set, this will not appear like this in the final publication
  3. rationale text from non-manual page sections now appears in the XRAT volume.
  4. Application of the Enhancement Requests from the Draft 3 review period.
  5. Where open issues exist a reviewers note is placed within the text.
  6. The scope has been rewritten and now only appears in XBD.
  7. The portability considerations have been rewritten and merged, and now only appear in the XRAT volume.

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