From unicode-inc@HQ.M4.Metaphor.COM Fri Apr 9 12:36:47 1993 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 12:21:22 PDT From: unicode-inc@HQ.M4.Metaphor.COM To: unicore@Unicode.ORG, org-members@Unicode.ORG Subject: UTC #53 Minutes - Revised. Final Approval at UTC #55. Complete distribution list: unicode-inc@hq.m4.Metaphor.COM ===================================================================== Dear Participating Member: These are the official minutes for UTC #53. They were voted on and passed at UTC #55. Thank you for your patience. Sincerely, Steven A. Greenfield Office Manager ================================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------- Minutes for UTC Meeting #53 July 17, 1992 at Apple Computer, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------ Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #53 Agenda UTC all day July 17, 1992 at 9 am - 5 pm. SC day 7/16/92. UIW all day 7/15 (Bay Area host site is Apple) Chair: Mike Kernaghan Vice Chair: Mark Davis Secretary: Ken Whistler Members: Adobe, Apple, Borland, Ecological Lingistics, Digital, Go, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NeXT, Novell, Sun, Taligent, The Research Libraries Group, Unisys, Wordperfect, Xerox. Friday 5/8: 9:00 - 5:00 PM Sponsor I. Administrative Issues (when applicable) A. Membership Roll Call (Kernaghan) B. Review Agenda (Kernaghan) C. Document registration (Kernaghan) D. Consortium business status: (Kernaghan, Davis) 1. Office Manager. 2. Recognition. 3. HP are newest Members. 4. Technical Reports. 5. 1992 Marketing and Collateral. 6. Other Unicode Chapters. 7. Unicode Booth at Windows NT Convention. 8. UIW Mailings 9. HQ activity 10. Volume II Publishing Status. E. Calendar Review: UIW Workshop #3 on Aug. 6-7 in Bay Area (location is Hyatt San Jose); content cutoff 6/25; content review 7/15. UTC#54 on Sept. 11 '92 in Seattle, hosted by Microsoft, SC day on 9/10. UTC#55 on Nov. 20 '92 in Bay Area, hosted by HP ,SC day on 11/19. UTC#56 on Feb. 12 '93 in Provo Utah, hosted by WordPerfect, SC day on 2/11. II. 10646 Merger A. Any 10646 Status (Group) III. Subcommittee Status A. New Scripts SC (McGowan) B. Unicode Implementation SC status (Freytag) C. UIW SC status (Scheinberg) D. East Asian SC status (Bosurgi, A. Bishop) E. Bidi SC status (Davis) F. Symbols SC status (Whistler, Freytag) G. Policies SC status (Kernaghan) H. Editorial SC status (Davis) IV. Other items A. Approve UTC #52 minutes B. Zero-width thingies (L. Anderson) C. Spaces of various kinds (L. Anderson) V. Closing items (M.Kernaghan) VI. Closed Unicode member caucus (4:00 pm - YES we will have one!) ============================================================= => Ordering books from Addison-Wesley; Member 's Contact Kristine Platt, Addison-Wesley (617) 944-3700 X2614. PO required; 48% discount. Non-members may contact A/W at: 1-800-447-2226, or, Addison-Wesley Publishing, Route 128, Reading, MA. 01867 ============================================================= Directions: Take 280 to De Anza Boulevard exit in Cupertino. Coming from San Jose, this is just marked Cupertino Exit. From the Palo Alto/SF direction, it is variously designated "De Anza Blvd., "Sunnyvale-Saratoga Avenue, or "Highway 85 South. Anyway, no matter how you get there, take De Anza Blvd. south (toward Saratoga) to the first intersection, which is Mariani Avenue. Turn right on Mariani, then turn right into the first driveway and park. There is only one building adjacent to the parking lot, and the lobby entrance is obvious. Our host is Peter Edberg. He is currently checking into hotel arrangements for people coming from out of town. I believe we have such arrangements with the Cupertino Inn, which is within walking distance from the meeting room. He will send further details when they become available. I. Administrative Issues ======================== Attendance ---------- Mike Kernaghan, Metaphor, Inc. - Chair Ken Whistler, Metaphor, Inc., Secretary * Peter Edberg, Apple Computer, Inc. Anas Jarrah, Symantec Corp. * F. Avery Bishop, Digital Equipment Corp. Joe Bosurgi, Univel * Jon Bale, Hewlett-Packard Company * Don Carroll, Hewlett-Packard Company * Isai Scheinberg, IBM Corp. * J.G.Van Stee, IBM Corp. * Thomas Grate, Microsoft Corp. * Asmus Freytag, Microsoft Corp. * Joseph D. Becker, Xerox Corp. * Rick McGowan, NeXT Computer, Inc. * Darryl Barksdale, WordPerfect Corp. * Bill Tuthill, Sun Microsystems * Bill English, Sun Microsystems * John Jenkins, Taligent * Tuoc Vinh Luong, Borland * Lloyd Honomichl, Novell * Ik Kim, Sun Microsystems Jim Caldwell, Pacific Rim * Joan Aliprand, RLG * Karen Smith-Yoshimura, RLG Sanford Rockowitz, RLG contractor * Arnold F. Winkler, Unisys * John Bennet, GO Corp. (*) voting member company Document registry: UTC92-035 UTC #53 Agenda UTC92-036 7/17 UTC Membership UTC92-037 Solution for Korean UTC92-038 Ecological Linguistics - Tibetan UTC92-039 Highlights of Seoul The meeting was called to order 9:27 am. The agenda was revised to include: Mailing Lists, E-mail access Indic SC, Korean SC Chair apologizes for late notice: E-Mail 'black hole'. Rick McGowan is recognized as Technical Director of Unicode, Inc. New Members: Hewlett-Packard Company welcomed to the Consortium. Technical Report: Submission of educational papers should be formalized as Technical Reports. These types of submissions allow greater access to work. Collateral: The Benjamin Group, Inc. have been brought on board to provide a more "professional look and feel". Colors have been finalized for all Consortium collateral. European Chapters: We now have a Chapter open in France at Microsoft Europe. Asmus has drafted a generic letter for forming charters in different parts of the world. In particular, Michel Suignard is setting up the charter for Europe. Other people are encouraged to contact Michel, to help in forming other European Charters that will help in the areas of advertising, marketing, etc. A Chapter has its own budget, fees, eligibility, and a recognized Chapter leader. These are subcommittees. Steering committees are people that will give the local chapter feedback for specific markets. To volunteer for a chapter, a business plan, a set of goals, and other information will be required. UIW Mailings: There are several brochures left. Members are encouraged to take some back with them to work. There are several information packets available. Tapes: There are vcr tapes (VHS Format only)for first and second day. What is the availability of the tapes? Still working on it... They will be made available at cost for all Corporate members. Courses have been steadily improved. Current attention will be focused on more professional appearance of Unicode as an organization. Videos will be another method for reaching a new audience and used in teaching new members. Sun would like to produce tapes for distribution and will be wanting to use them for internal use. Jim Caldwell wants to volunteer for videos. Will be brought up again later at UTC. Windows Show - Moscone Center: NT show was impressive. Interest picking up. Registered attendees' level of interest was very high. Book Sales: Only fifty Book II. Volume II is expected off the press next week, July 23rd. Unicode will receive a shipment of books within 8-10 days after that. Sales of Volume I: 6000 printed copies, 2100 copies sold as of 4Q 1991. There is no sales information available for 1992 yet. Action Item #1 - Mike Kernaghan: Mike will to call for information on sales of books. Addison-Wesley is to provide a breakdown of sales. Volume I is available in computer literature shops, book retail chains (B. Dalton, Waldens Books, etc.) Unicode still has several in storage. Volume II will be available in 3-4 weeks after initial printing. Unicode HQ is to order Volume I and II for potential customers that do not want pre-pub books. This is for people that wish to have the books only. Action Item #2 - Officers: The Officers are to take action for translation of Volume II into multilingual text. UTC #52: The notes for UTC #52 were sent out within two-week time limit. To ratify notes vote was: 20 Yeah 6 Abstain T-shirts: Every member will receive two (2) T-shirts as UTC members. Each member will also receive a T-shirt for UIW #3. Unicode Internet Node: Rick McGowan will maintain the Unicode Internet Node. It will be up and running within a few weeks. Unicode archives will be stored here. Calendar Review: UIW #3 - August 13 & 14, 1992 UTC #54 - September 9-11, 1992 at Microsoft Corp. UIW #4 - In Frankfurt, Germany hosted by Unisys. UTC #55 - November 19-20, 1992 at Hewlett-Packard-Cupertino Site. UTC #56 - February 11-12, 1993 hosted by WordPerfect Corp. UTC #57 - April 8, 1993. Sun will host. Bill English to check into facility. Calendar Activity: Workshop in Japan? Finalizing? Isai will cover later. X3L2 will be September 29, 1992. Date is floating currently, but is scheduled. CJK will be hosted in Hawaii. SC will be held in Quebec. P7 will be held in Washington, D.C., August 12-13, 1992. X2P7 will be held on December 7-9, 1992. Joseph Becker on Dealing with Seoul Changes...A Summary: DP1 DP2 DIS 1 DIS2 IS ISO --------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-- ~ ------| Close Close 1.0 1.1 Unicode ------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-- ~ ------| 88 89 90 91 92 Year --------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-----------| Voting in Seoul: Yeas: Nays: UK Poland (!) Denmark Japan (Greece) Turkey (!) Tunisia (?) Korea (?) Issues that remained open: O-Zone Expanded. Japan Inc. will not accept standards due to politics Europe is coming around. Isai Scheinberg volunteered information regarding Japan: There is review of several major projects. The evolution of Unicode is on its way... The Changes At Seoul That Can Be Categorized into Five (5) Areas: 1) Architecture 2) Code 3) Character Semantic 4) Icon and Name Transfer 5) Purely Editorial Character Semantics, Icon and Name Transfer, and Purely Editorial were not reviewed by Mr. Becker. Code refers to Architectural Changes: Level 2 - has no restrictions Level 1.5 - (UK Stance) Level 1 - No Combining Marks Tibetan was withdrawn Greek was slightly rearranged Circled Katakana was rearranged Some Arabic symbols were rearranged Unicode was reviewed positively Recently, there were three tables offered for Tibetan; China, U.K., and U.S. The U.S. compromise was to withdrawn Tibetan. CJK Unification passed unanimously. The delta with 1.0 DIS - 12 CV ----- ---- -----Precomposed Syllables ---- ----- ---- ----- IS ----New ----Level Shifted ----Alphabets ---- ----LVT ----Ancients Removed/Replaced ----Leading Consonant (L) Vowel (V) Trailing Consonant (T) Resolution UTC53-01: The Unicode Technical Committee resolved that the modified version of The Unicode Encoding Standard will be issued as Version 1.1. Resolution was passed unanimously. Company Breakdown of Votes: Adobe - Absent Apple - Yes Borland - Yes Digital - Yes Ecol Ling - Yes GO - Yes HP - Yes IBM - Yes Microsoft - Yes NeXT - Yes Novell - Yes RLG - Yes Sun - Yes Taligent - Yes Unisys - Yes WordPerfect - Yes Xerox - Yes Unicode supports the merger with a statement of cooperation, thus ratifying movement. Some Subcommittees: Rick McGowan - Rick is going to contact UK regarding Tibetan. He will work on getting them submitted in the SC; this will allow discussion of submission. The status on Muldavian: Not slated for UTC, draft passed around UTC. For future papers being submitted to Scripts SC: All papers must be submitted by a sponsor. They must also be formatted with: 1) Block Introduction, 2) Code Chart, 3) Names List, and 4) a Paper on Procedure. Isai Scheinberg - UIW papers and presentations reviewed. One withdrawal due to person unable to make date of Workshop. Dual Tracks for Tutorial/Speakers on Day 1. Dual Track for All Speakers on Day 2. There is planned to be 200+ participants. The sign-ups are averaging 5 per day. Classic Consulting International, Inc. (CCI) is recognized as Workshop coordinator. Times were discussed for start of both days: 9:00 a.m. Novell/IBM to host first evening's entertainment - Jugglers. The next Workshop is to be in Germany. It will be held at the Holiday Inn. Japan Workshop is being planned for Spring '93. Local Sponsor being requested for Japan...Similar to Unisys for Germany and Digital for Merrimack. Local Sponsor will help with advertising, mailing, etc. Asmus Freytag - They defined functional requirements, algorithms, tables, and sample of Resource Tool, Attribute Tables, character conversion, recommendations on character conversions. Joe Bosurgi - East Asian SC is continuing to consider Vietnamese. Two proposals offered. Uni-Han will validate these characters. Lee Collins and John Jenkins will be working with Vietnamese Liaison. Mark Davis' proposal/paper endorsed. Karen Smith-Yoshimura offered up a proposal to review nine (9) missing Hangul characters. This is an action item for SC. The Taiwanese offered a new proposal wanting an additional 16K. This would include overlap. This is exploration into new Han encoding. China and Korea have expressed new script of living language. They offered a proposal of additional symbols (mathematics, shopping, etc.) Request made for historic (dead) scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphics is one of the most important. Combining marks were discussed. BIDI - Israeli proposal was discussed at last UTC meeting. Action taken to keep BIDI in tact, several member companies are still using this method. Recommendation to make BIDI a standing committee. Symbols - Status is such that the principles were very busy and will have to wait for further update. One of the symbols to be offered up for validation was put off for future study. They were viewed as truly characters. Symbols must stay a SC due to some codes/symbols being inferior in quality. Travel industry did not have any symbols available. Mathematical aspects are strong. A call for submission of symbols sent by Ken and Asmus. Mike Kernaghan - No meeting. Membership now has three levels: Corporate (Full), Associate, and Individual. There was an updated roster supplied; verify and contact new office manager, Steven A. Greenfield, for changes in e-mail, address, company/representative names. Point of Information: anyone can chair a subcommittee meeting, including other companies that are owned (or majority owned) by any other member. Full and Associate members are able to chair meetings. Ownership is the deciding factor. This should be independent of Board of Directors. All chairpersons are charged with finding a vice-chair for their appropriate SC. Volume II is due out in July '92. We will have a new representative at Addison-Wesley. Ann Lane will replace Abbey. Action Item #3 - John Jenkins: John Jenkins is to verify cover art with Diane Freed. Changes to Minutes: Second page, Section 6...printed 60000... Fourth page, Officers will examine...officers will take action? To keep as an action item for Mark Davis. Second page, paragraph 8, period missing, add. Approval of Minutes: 12 Yeas, unanimously approved. New Press Release: The newest press release will be naming companies and products that will incorporate Unicode. Point of Interest: Joe Becker mentioned PC Magazine article. Whenever an article uses Unicode, the trademark symbol is to be placed next to Unicode on first use. T-Shirts: A special thanks to Darryl Barksdale for the T-Shirts for UIW #3 and UTC members. Han Mapping Tables: Policy: Unicode intends to provide all mapping tables and databases available for Full and Associate member companies for free. All others requesting diskettes shall be charged $5.00 + Shipping per diskette. All diskettes will be labeled to help in identification. There will be three diskettes available: **Volume I, Version 1.0 **CJKXREF.FIX with 1 meg of Han URO 2.0 **1.0 Namesall.lis Also available will be a 4D database. Taligent has a /hypercard dB/ that will expand CJKXREF.FIX . **to all members; by request to public at cost + shipping. / / to member only. Namesall.lis is for member companies only until debugging is complete. Action Item #4 - Mike Kernaghan: Mike is to takon diskette copying and shipment to member companies. Metaphor is to verify the debugging, copying, and disbursing to member companies. All customer to be referred to Steven A. Greenfield to make sure they have the most up-to-date version of CJKXREF.FIX disk. Addendum to Action Item #4: Mike Kernaghan offered a proposition: Ship all diskettes to members for debugging. Accepted. 1.1 Document: The schedule and format discussed. There will be a technical report detailing what happened at Seoul. Let the Minutes Show That: A motion was made to have the Technical Report list all the changes, and: 1) all contradictions 2) small scale changes 3) misc. information Rick McGowan seconded the motion. Mark Davis' group will address the issue of content and form. Rick and Mark to coordinate how this is done. Proposal #1: A proposal was made to UTC members to have Version 1.1 out before end of year ('92) and before the IS publication. Let the Minutes Show That: The Unicode Technical Committee resolves that the Editorial SC is to draft a production plan for the Unicode Encoding Standard, Version 1.1 that is consistent with camera-ready material by the end of 1992. And that the Editorial SC is empowered to begin work on 1.1. Meeting ended adjourned at 4:30 p.m.