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Article #584Re: Standards Update, NIST Shell-and-Tools FIPS Workshop
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 19:27
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 19:27
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Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) In article <558@usenix.ORG> std-unix@uunet.uu.net writes: >Standards let the government avoid vendor-specific requirements like >UNIX or SVID. ... >The Government has a burning need for a standard, they find it >politically unacceptable to use UNIX System V as that standard, ... I have to challenge this often-heard (from DEC, for example, who don't want truly open systems in the first place) rationale. In fact there have been more than one major (in the billion-dollar range) federal acquisition where SVID conformance was specified, and that specification was successfully upheld in appeals. Thus the government's official position would appear to be that SVID is an acceptable standard. Note that SVID is not the same as AT&T UNIX System V implementation, although there is clearly a relationship between them. (But there also is between UNIX System V and POSIX, ANSI C, etc.) Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 148
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!usenix!jsq From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Standards Update, NIST Shell-and-Tools FIPS Workshop Message-ID: <560@usenix.ORG> Date: 28 Sep 90 19:27:10 GMT References: <558@usenix.ORG> Sender: jsq@usenix.ORG Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 20 Approved: jsq@usenix.org (Moderator, John Quarterman) X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net